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END
I
X.
Numb.
I,
let
us
alone
to
have our
way, and do
all,
and then
we will have
Concord with
you
as
our
people whilft
you
obey
us.
Truly
we have found your Predeceffors ftep Fa-
ther's,
and hard Task
-
matters ;
yet
the Lord
knows my heart,thac
I
take it
far
more
Bale incomparably,
and
in
idelf
delirable to fuch
as,.1
to
be Ruled
then to Rule,to
Obey then
to Command,
fo
be it we
be
not
commaneied to
fin
againítGod,and
run
into
Hell. But
when we
have all forfaken
our Churches
and Offices for peace
with
you,
is
all the
work done
?
1.
How
(hall
we
do,Xar.
-peace
with God and Confci-
ence,for
over
-
running
his
work, and liarving
Souls.,
,x:
How
(hall we
bear the
cryes
of
poor People
for
the
Bread
of Life
?
I.
What
that
God's Worfhip and our Con-
gregations
do
?
Who
fhall
fupply our
Places
?
are there able
faithful
Men enough
of
your Way
?
O
that we
could
fee
them?
It
is
not two
or three or ten in
a
Coun-
try
that
would ferve turn.
If
there
be enough, why did you permit
fo
many
drunken,
fottifh
Readers, and
fo
many hundred wicked
Livers, which the
Church
is
not
well
rid
of
yet?
See
the
Centuries
of
thofe
rejected in
the
Beginning, while
Mr.
White
was
Chairman,
I
never owned the
tatting
out
of
any worthy or
tollera-
ble
Man
for Loyalty
;
yet
what
Reproaches did he and others undergo for cafling
oat
fuch
a
pack of
Swearers,
or Drunkards,
or Adulterers, or the
like
?
is
there
no
Concord to
be had
with you
but by giving
up
our poor People to fuch
as
thefe
again
?
For
my
part
I
love
Charity
and Peace better than
ever
I did, but Charity
hash Eyes,
or
is
guided by
Eyes..
tam
not
a Stranger in
England,
I knew Multi-
tudes
of
the
old
Epifcopal Clergy
that
were ignorant or
of
wicked Lives, and the
great Hinderances
of
the Salvation
of
their People, when they
fhould feek
to
fave.
1
knew but
here and
'there one
of
them that
was
learned and
godly ferions
Preach-
ers. Thole
Men I
love
and
honour
according to their Worth,as much
as
any Men
of
any party
:
Thefe only
did we delire
Concord with
as
Minifters
:
and
alas
if
it
be
not
to be had
without
forfaking
àll
our Charges, and giving up
a
whole Coun-
try
to
fo few
of
thefe,
the
Will
of the
Lord be done
; for
I
will
never
believe
that
this
is
his
Will
till
you bring
other
Reafons for
it then yet any
of
you
all
have
pub-
licitly' done.
And
I
warn
all
honei
Epifcopal Divines,that they take heed
of drawing
your Guilt upon them,
and
of
concurring with Men
of
fuch dangerous Principles
as
you
are;
your way to Concord muff
be
like the Romanios
(the
greaten
Schif-
mancks on the Face
of the Earth)
who cry up Unity,
Unity, but
themfelves muff
be
the.Centre, or
it
muff be
only in their
Way
and
on
their Terms.
They
will
unite with
no
Chriftians
in all
the World that are not of their
Patty, (for
a
Party
they
are, thoùgh they will
be called
the Catholick Church).
and
do
not
you go
this
way
too
far
?
You will haveConcord with none
as
Minifters, but
chafe
of
your own
Party,
all
the
rat
mutt be no Minifters with you,
nor
their
People take them for
fuch.
Durf
you
(whoever
you
are, for Í know you
not)
be
bound
to
anfwer for
us,
and bear
us
out before God in
Judgment,
if
we lhould
all
give up
our
Places
or
preach no more
?
durit
you
be bound upon pain
of
Damnation to your
Oyes
to
fave all
our
People from being condemned
for
it
if
they
fhould
all
renounce and
forfakeus, and
-all
the Minioerial Worlhip of God which
we
perform, and the
Churches
we guide
?
Alas
it
is
not
your telling
us,
that the
Holy
Saint
Ignatius
is
lately
vindicated,
that
will
fatisfy
our
Confciences in
a Cafe,
of this Moment,
even
to
leave
Godunworfhipped Publickly, and our People untaught,
and let Satan
raigo, and
Souls
perish by Thoufands for fear of facing them without Epifcopal
Ordination.
If
you
It
ill fay
that
we
fhould be
of yourMind,
and
be ordained by
Bioops,
we again
fay
our judgmentsare
not
at
our Command
;
we cannot
believe
what
we
lift,
I know multitudes
of AntiEpifcopal
Men that fludy
asfaithfully
and
Peek
God's
Direáion
as
heartily
as
any
of
you
all
(and yet cannot
fee
the Juftnefs
of
your Caufe, (though whether
it
be
¡tiff
or
not, I
purpofely forbear to
pafs
ìny. Cenfure).
if $ill
you fay,
it
is
our
Wilfulnefs
or
Peevifhnefs
;
I
leave
you,
as
Ufùrpers
of God's Prerogative, and pretending
to
that Knowledge
of
our
Hearts
which
is a
oep
above
the Papal Arrogation
of
Infallability.
Nay,
Peeing
I
have gone
fö far,
1will
add
.thij;
do you not imitate the
Papifts
in the main Point
of
Recu-
fànfy, by
which
We
were wont to know them in
England?
Nay, we
had
many
Church
Papil:s
that
went
not
fo
far
?
muff
not
you,
as
they,
have People difclaim
eur.;i,Riniftry and Affemblies, and
notjo,n
in them
for fear
of owning
unordained
Mete..
Be.
not
too angry
with
ifs, I
pray
you,
if
we
call
not
fuch
Proteftants or
at. ¡talt
if
we take
it
for
impoflible to have
Concord
with them. z.
I
muff
an
tell
youthat
are offended at
my
Saying,
that
thofe
particular
Bishops
named, defer-
ved to be call out,
that
if
you
be
one that dareown them in
their
Ways, or
would
have the Church
have fuch
as
they, yea, that do not deteo
and lament their
Mil
carriages, fecal to your felf
as
Pious as
you will,
you, are
no Man
for
our
Com-
pany