1, 30 The Reafonablenef? You know very well, that as confider: able perlons as any amongft You make no fcruple of fettling in Parifhes of as little extent as any in London : That thofe of You, who fettle in the largeft Parifhes, receive, without diflinaion, People from all quarters; as well thofe whofe Parifh Churches are able to con- tain them as thofe which, You pretend, are not: That your Congregations are made up, not of thofe perlons whom their Eflablifhed Minifler is not able to take care of, but of thofe who will not let him take care of them; who would not come to the worship and fervice of the Church of England, were the Places of Afembly ten timesmore capacious than they are, and the fettledMinitler never fo able and ready to inflruí them. And if I fhould faythat there isnot a fingleper- fon in all your Congregations who applies himfelf to Thu purely becaufe He hath no opportunity of Publick Worfhip, and Attendance upon God's Ordinances, in the Eflablifhed Church, and becaufe it is not poflïble for the Minifler of the Parifh to take care of Him; 1 hardly think I fhould go beyond truth. And if this be true (as I have reafon to think it is) how
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