of CONFORMITY. been exactly what would have con- tented you, you cannot imagine but that for all this many a Man would have been Ejetled, and, for ought I can judge, the number offuch might have come but little fhort of what it is reprefented now to be. Now I would ask, whether would have been better, and more rea- fonable, all things conlidered, that the People fhould have united with their Parzfh-Miniflers , or with there Ejetled Perfons ; whether they fhould have been efleem'd barbarous and inhumane, if they had deferted thefe, and ferioufly attended upon the publick Worfhip in their Parifh- churches; whether it might not have been the Duty of the People to leave them, thô theywereejetledwithout having auyfuitableCrime alleg'cl agalnfl them. For obfèrve, If you grant that at that time fome Terms might be impDfed very law- fully, nay, and filch Terms as would in- fallibly exclude fome, You mull grant, that there was no necefTity then of alleg- ing any fuitable Crime again/I them, and that they might be lawfully turn'd out, becaufe they did not think it lawful, or proper, to come up to thole Terms. Why then are thePeople taught to follow them, F 4 becaufe
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