of CONFORMITY. I 23 that tends to inflame the Paffions of tholeyou differ from, to make them jea- lous and fearful of a clofer union with you, to render them fufpicious of your tempers and defigns, and difengage their AffeEiions from you, but that you have thought it worth your while to praElife it, in the way of your Separation, and in the Methods you have taken to begin, and confirm it. As if it had been your bufinefs todo what you knew would be moil grievous in their Eyes, and your refolution, to vex them as much as pof- fible, fince they would not agree with you ; and as if the interchanging offuch good Offices were likely to prove the readieft way to fettle a good Correfpond- ence between you, or to bring you one fiep nearer to one another. In oneword, Let who will believe, that can, that your Separation, and the Methods which have been taken to uphold it, can have any tendency towards the procuring thefe Alterations which would make the Church perfeE enough for you. Com- mon Senfe contradicts this ; and the more I confider it, the more I am con- firmed, that tho' it were never fo lawful to life fuch Means for the Aceomplifh- ment 41 1
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