[1031 Rtibrickmay be Approved and Contented to. 9. Efpecially confidering that all the Parifh who receive not thrice a year, ( ofwhich Eafter muff be one for them all) mutt be prefented to the raid ordinary, and alto all that come not to Church ; By which means divers Parithes about London mutt have force i0000, fbme 20000, forme 3ooa force 400003 or 50000, that have no room in the Church, all pretented if this Law were executed. XXX. We have reafon to doubt whether the Aft of Uniformity it felf be not part of the Books which we mutt fubfcribe Affent and Con- lent to ; becaufe it is fo Paid in theBook it Pelf The Contents of the Book are firft named in general, and then this At named among the Contents. Either it is part of the Contents, or it is not ; if it be not, we mull; not affent and content to that fallhood (that it is;) If it be, O far be it from us that believe a God, a Judg- ment, and a life to come, and the facred Scrip- tures, to Affent and Content to that Aft with all its penalties, filencing and ruining fuch as con- form not. Oneofus that was oft with the great, wife, ;aft Lord ChiefJuftice Hales, 'bath heard 'him lamenting the Schirms and difcords of the Clergy, ferioufly fay, that [ 7:here was no right ^,warto heal us, but by a New 45 of Vni forriay,] (And hath. his `rate Writings againft laying Concord or Religion upon mens u.nnecef- fary additions.) And the Reporter taketh not `himfelf to be -wirer than him, nor meet to At: feat. and 'Confèntto fuch a Law, confidering the experience ofthere feventeen years, and the con- fequents on mens divided andexafperated minds, upon
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