of CONFORMITY. 'T (hall not be fo particular under this Argument, as I have been under the laff, becaufe there is no need of it. I know none who maintain, that the meer Com- mand of the Magiftrate is fufficient to oblige a Minifter to lay afide the publick Exercife of his Offiice. But then, I know none that think, there may not be Con- fderations, fu.fficient enough to induce a Minifter of It/us Chrifl to comply with fuch a Command ofthe Magiftrate. And therefore, I fee not to what purpofe it is to produce fuch Texts as have nothing in them againft this. For ftill we are where we were before, and the Queaion remains the fame. Is your pratice for the advantage of the Chriftian Church, all things conlidered ? And, Is there a neceffity for it? If there be, In God's Name let it Le continued. But, as long as there appears to me no neceílîty for it, and no advantage to the Church of God, comparable to the difadvantages of ir, I cannot think it reafonable, or agreeable to the Precepts of the Gofpel. Whether it be io, or not, nothing can be gathered from there Faffages. Your Obligations would not have been lefs, had there not been one of thefe in the whole New Tef}a- 6 t
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