of CONFORMITY. 1I7 I proceed now in the Argument before us, and defire You to confider. 4. Whether the method You have taken be a likely way to make the Church of England one degree more perfe& than it is. Under the lait head I argued upon the fuppofition that it was a likely way. But I only fuppofed this, that you might be the more fenfible of the Vnreafonablenefs of feparation upon the principle I am now examining. I cannot think that You your felves can judge the methods You have taken, at all likely to induce, or force, the Church of England to a farther reformation, and a greater degree of perfection. And if they be not, it muff be very unreafon- able to make ufe of them as means to bring about this end. By relation, I know, You underfland fuch Amend- ments as You have thought reafonable: and not thinking Your felves likely to obtain them by Conformity to the Church, You feparate, in order to obtain them. Let me now ask You, Is it a likely way to obtain any amendments, or any fuch alterations as You delire, in the Eftablifhed Form of Church-Government, wholly to lay afide Bijhops and to difcard the It 3 1e
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