[2461 ruined, or worfe, unlefs the favour of the Pa pifts deliver them ; and the other Party had ra- ther be laved by Papifts,than be hanged or ruin- ed by Proteftants, which of there were more to be fufpeted of Popery ? efpecially if the fame men that give us the Alarm that Popery is corn- ing in, undertook the tole teaching of thole by whom they fufpet its entrance, and 'vet would not abate a needlefs Oath, or covenant or cere- mony to keep it our, or. ftrengthen the Prote ftants by the Union, for which we have fo long patientiv begg'd and waited. XXXIII. The molt ofour acquaintance take it for their duty to do their belt to keep up the re- putation of the publick Conformable Miniftry, that it may further Love and Concord, and the turrets of their labours with the people ; and they profefs to take their own Affemblies but as Chapels, and not as diffinEl, much lets as fepara-, tedChurches : And thole of them who do ad- minifter the Sacraments , and do that which is like the Separatifts way, yet do it not on their principles, but pro tempore, till God {hall give them opportunity to ferve him in the eftablifhed way (if ever it may be hoped for :) it being re- formed or well ordered Parifh-Churches under the Government and countenance of theCht iftian Magiftrates, which are molt agreeable to their delires. XXXIV When we go into the Para-Churches; we find thole that have able godly Minifters ufu- ally to be as full as will conf ft with the peoples hearing the voice (which in many places will not reach to a great part of the Congregation:) we rind filch Preachers, whether Conformable, or Ton
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