The Reafonableneß number) is plain. For how few of the Ejetled Miniflers confined themfelves to the very Places whence they were ejelled? How fewof the Difenting Laitymake any fcruple of forfaking a Paflour on the ac- count of any little difference, or ground- lets difiatisfaátion , how fuitable foever they have found his Gifts, andhow much foever they have experienc'd his readinefs to watchfor their Souls ? How few do we find, that exprefs the leaff readinefs to conform to the Church of England, any more after the departure, or death of their EjetiedMiniflers, than before? And when do we find any of them that are not more ready, at fuch a time, to truft the care of their Souls with DifentingPafiors, to whom they are grangers, and as to whom theyare, at beg, ingreat uncertainty, than to return to the Communion of the Efla- blifhed Church? This Argument then can be of little ufe to the prefent ffate of the Caufe. For it is plain, the People think not themfelves obliged in Confcience conflantly to attend upon the Miniflry of that Perlon, from whom they have once received benefit. It is plain, that many Confiderations of leffer moment than the Peace and Unity of the Church, do
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