of CONFoaiirTY'4 83 do induce them to leave a Paflour who bath been ufeful to them, and attend upon one to whom they areftrangers. It is plain , if this Argument were wholly wanting, there would not be a Diffrater the le(s in England. It is plain therefore, that the Argument is weak, and of no great account in the judgment of your People themfelves. if then they do not judge themfelves obliged in Confcience never to forfake that Teacher, the benefit of whole labours, and fuitablenefs of who/e Gifts they have experienced, They could not be obliged in Confcience to flick to their own Ejeded Alinifers. Much lets are they obliged in Confcience to joyn themfelves to others, whole Abilities are unknown to them, in oppofition to the Church of England. Yet this is their con- ftant Practice upon the departure, or death of their old Pallor, or upon any diflike of their own. Whom then of your Laity will this Argument vindicate? And, if their Practicebe filch, why is an Argument brought to defend it, which muff fuppofe it quite otherwife, or die be acknowledged to have no flrength in it ? Their Practice therefore is different from what you think it, and reprefented by Fs you
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