of CÒNFORMitY. their want of Judgment ? Did they make this Repel/ only whereYour Suc- cefirs were really infufñcient ? and, was it regarded by You only in fuch Cafes ? I cannot but wonder to fee fuch infig- nificant Arguments advanced for fo very material a point of Praaice. It would be Prefumption indeed for me to pretend to advife You ; but had I been in your Circumflances, and had any of my People been fo importunate with Me to continue my Publick Minifiry amongft them ; tho' I know not what Anfwer I should have given them, yet I know what I verily think, I ought to have given them. And that is fome- thing like this. I have indeed controlled a Relation to Tou ; and am obliged to Mid nifler to you in Holy things as long as it is befl, upon all Accounts, that Ifhould dojo : but now, fince it is more for the peace and univerfalgood of the Church, that Ifhould not execute my Office publickly amongf flu, I think my[elfobliged not to do it. Indeed if there were any necejity for it ; if there were any danger ofyour lofngyour Soulsfor want ofmy publick Aftflance ; if your own care, together with the Legal Provifon for them, and the Grace o fGod, were not fi ffa- l;I gient PART II. 7
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