10; The Reafonablenef3 Liturgy of the Church of England. But alafs! this is impraEicable. However, Enough is known of the Worfhip in the DifJentingCongregations tomake me think, that your felves will not affirm the whole of it (as made up of all the Separate Per- formances throughout the Land, on any one Lord's Day) to be more free from im- perfeaions, and indecencies, more fuit- able to the Nature of God, or more fit for the Inf}ruâion of his Church, than the Eftablifhed Liturgy. Nay, I hardly think, that you can prefer any one fingle Performance, in all refpeds, before it. But if you could, and if we thould fup- pofe ( for Arguments fake) that Mr. Baxter, and a few more, could in their way, exprefs themfelves very happily, and entertain the People with a Publick Service much better than the Liturgy yet this would not prove that your Churches are more perfec`1 than ours in this refped. For it is not fromwhat this, or that particular Man can do, by the help of Nature and Art, that we mutt draw our Judgment in this point. But if you would prove your Churches more perfetl in their worfbip, than theChurch of Eng- landd you muff prove that, generally fpeai
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