of CONFOlRIvIITY. 103 [peaking, they are fo; and that your method tends to make them fo; or rather, that, upon comparifon of the whole fer- vice of every one of them in the Nation, with that of the Church Eflablifhed, it ap- pears, that they are fewer, and more inconfiderable Imperfetlions in it, than in that fettled by the Law. How fecurely might we put the whole matter upon this ifFue, without fo much as defiring that you thould be as fevere, and hard, in the ConftruEions you put upon your own 'Performances, as you have been in thole you have put upon our Liturgy? But I will forbear faying any more upon this Head, becaufè I think it needlefs : there being nothing plainer, than that it is unaccountable, and inconfiftent, to fepa- rate from an imperfetl Church, in order to prefs a farther Reformation ; and con- flantly to join with another Church as imperfetl, and which wants Reformation as much. 3. I thall endeavour to thew, That to feparate from a Church, in order to ob- tain a farther Reformation, is not in it felf a reafonable or defenfible thing. This Argument, as it feems to me, fuppofes that the Church is tolerable, only that it 4 bath
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