Hoadly - BX5136 H6

of CONFORMITY. Vantages ofyour f lease, and your hearty endeavours to do good in a more private way, would have been greater, than the advantages ofyour Publick Miniflrations; and that the Confequences of the latter have been more pernicious to theChriflian World, than the Confequences of the former would have been ; then it will be found that you have been unprofitable Servants, and incurr'd the fame guilt by your Prailice, which you were fo afraid of incurring by your Silence; that you have refufed to promote the Honour of God, andGood of his Church, when it was in your power to do it. And it is a very weighty matter, and worthyof a moff ferious confederation, whether the Argu- ments on the fide of your Praciice be plainly and evidently Superiour to thofe on the other fide. That they are fo, I hardly believe I fhall ever fee clearly de- mdnflrated. And till I do, I cannot pof- fibly think the Argument now before us fufficient to vindicate the Continuance of your Publick Miniflrations. The Fifth Argument is this, We judge it tobe our Duty to conti- nue the Publick Exercife of our Minifry, becaufe of the Necejtles of the People; many

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