(4m) pieces by your violence and exafperation of men . minds. §. 12. Real: t I. And by this means you will be led, =rd allo leadothers into the haynous guilt of perfecutiog the mem- bers ofChrifl. For when you have madeLaws for your Cere- monies, youwill expect obedience, and take all for fchiftnaticks or di obedient that refufe them ; and its like your 1. ws will be b4ckt with penalties ; you will not be content to have the liberty of cling thofe Ceremonies themfelves, and to leave all other to theirlibertier. We hear (and formerly heard it more) how impatient almoll all ofthis way are of divcrßty in Cir- cumflances and Ceremonies. They take it to be intolerable confnfion to have diverfity in thefe things : what fay they ? (hall one ufeone geflure, and another ufe another ? what confu- fion will this be ? or ifa few ofthe wifer fort have more wit, yet enflamewill bring the multitude to this pals. We fee now, they will not endure to joyn with thofe that fit at the Lords Supper, though they may kneel themfelves. If they fee but two or three (hops in a Townopen on Chriíimas day, they throw flones at them and break their windows, where they dare, and are ready to rife up againfi filch as enemiesin war. Betides you will take it as a contempt of your Laws, if men do not conform to them : And if you ufe the Ceremonies, and others difufe them, you will think they cer.fure your praeiice by their forbearance. And its like they will be forced to give fame realms of their forbearance : And thofe Reafons mull needs be againfi your way, and confequently teem to difparage you, fo that I may take it for granted, that thofe that would have Ceremonis, would have them forced on the Church, and fo would taife a perfecuti- on to maintain them. §. 13. And then this perfecution when its oncebegun, its ne- ver like to fray till it reach to theheightof Cruelty. For 1. When you have begun, you will think that you are engaged in honour to carry it on, and not to Puffer every poor man or woman todifoby you, and difparage your wifdom. 2. And if you lay but a gentle penalty on diffenters, it will do no good on thorn ( but perhaps excite them to the more oppolition.) When Confcience is engaged againll you, it is not final', mulets nor imprifonment neither that will alter the judgements or the waies offuck. AnI tberefgre you waft either proceed to blood
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