Hoadly - BX5136 H6

or CONFORMITY. 109 fonable and Natural interpretation of your Practice, or not ? It is plain from what I have laid, that your Practice can- not reafonably be fo interpreted ? nor is the praátice of many confiant Communi- cants fo interpreted. If then thefe Church- men will fo interpret it, whole fault is it and who is to anfwer for it ? Are you accountable for all the ill confequences of your anions? I hope not. Are you to anfwer for all the unreafonable inter- pretations other Men fhall put upon them ? You tells us, No certainly, when your Occafional Communion is concerned. Then, you fay, The unreafonable interpre- tations ignorant or violent Men willput upon four Pracfice, ought not to move you in the leafs. Why then will you not be as favourable to Confiant Communion, and own, that the Unreafonable Opinions, or Judgments of others ought to be of no account in this Caule alto. ? Or, k Occa- fional Communion a much greater duty, a greater honour to the Chriflian Caure, and the Protefiant Religion, more beneficial to the Nation, or more edifying to your felves, than Confiant Communion would be ? And I can affure you, that your Occafional Communion Rath contributed as much

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