of CoÑFORMtfiY. an Argument lufhcient,ofit felf, todefend your Practice ; and diffin& from thole others drawn from the neceties of the People. Now, before I examine them, I might venture to affirm, that it is impoffible, or, at leaff, highly improbable, that there fhould be any thing of this abfolute Obligation in any pafhage of the New Teflament. For it is certain, That the Cafe may fo happen, that the Silence of a Perfon, who had once a Commiffion given him to Officiate in publick, may be of much more advantage to the Chriflian Church, than his Publick Mini- (lrations; and that when the Cafe doth fo happen , this Silence becomes his Duty, and is to be preferr'd before the publick Execution of his Office ; as he is under a general and indifiolvible Obliga- tion to behave himfelf always, as the Good of the Chriflian Church, and the Ho- nour of God require. This I have obferved under the Fir/l Argument, which was taken from your Ordination-Vow. That this Cafe hath aaually happened amongft us, I cannot expet you should grant, till you are convinced that it bath. But that it may poffibly happen. i you PART IT. 49
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