eDePoo? ano familp kook. 125 Confciences will you , afterwards conclude that no mans Confcience will be true to his Oath of Allegi- ance, which fcrupleth Ecclefiaftical Oaths or Subfcri- ptions ? Another man would think it a more probable arguing, to fay, He that fcrupleth one Oath or Sub- Icription,- is like to make Confcience of another : For if he dare break, an Oath when he bath taken it, why fhauldhe not venture as far to take it ? 3. But Sir, all this is Satans ordinary courte, toen- deavour to engage the interefts of Princes feemingly on his fide, to make Religionodious. Chrift muff beaccu- fed as forbidding to pay Tribute to Ccefar, and as a Ufur- per. of the Kingdom. Pilate muft condemn him left he feem not Cafars `Friend. Paul goes for a Peftilenr Fel- low and a mover of (edition among the people, that taught things contrary to Cafar and the Law. But again Sir, what is all this to the café here that you come to treat about ? Did I perfwade your Tenant to be a Nonconformif. ? Did I fpeak one fyllable to h'm ofany fuch [natter ? Did I put any ferule into his mind againfl any orders of the Church ? Ask him whether I did ? When I had nothing to fay to him , but to exhort him to Repentance, and the LoveofGod, and a holy and heavenly life and converfation, and quickly to forfake his fins, how cometh' Nonconformity to have any thing to do here.? What is that to the queftion in hand ? Pray you Saul mark your Land- Lords Argument ; [ Nonconformifis t? areall Traytors and Rebels, (ifyou will believe him :) Therefore forfake not your fins, and turn not to God and a holy life by true Repentance. ] Or [other men are (faith he) Re- bels againfl the Th-eref re continue you a Rebel aigainfiGod. ] Have not you natural Logick enou"li to perceive the deceit of fuch an argument ? For
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