5 o The Keafonablenei you cannot deny. And if it may happen, I am fore, We mutt fix a very great ab- furdity upon the Inflitution of Chrifl, if we fuppofe, that He confulted the peace and advantage of his Church, and yet appointed force Offices in it, and obli- ged Them to execute their Office pub- li.clyly, whether it fhould be for the peace or diíiurbance; for the advantage or dif- advantage of his Church. This I fay, I can be fore, without any farther En- quiry, that He could not do : And yet this he inuft have done, if there be this alfolute Obligation intimated in thefe Texts. And if there he not, there can- not be any Argument in defence of your fra /lice drawn from them. But it will not be amifs to examine the dehgn, and meaning of every one of them. The f n i is, Mat. 5. 13, 14, &c. The words are there, Te are the Salt of the Earth : lut if the Salt have loft it'sfavour, wherewithJhal it lefalted ? It ù thenceforth goodfor nothing, lut to le call out, and to le trodden under foot of Nev. Te are the light of the World. A City that isJet on a Hill cannot le hid.Neith.er' doMen light a Candle, andput it under a Bulbel, but on a Candle- flick, and it giveth light unto allthat are in the
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