126 The Reafnablenef youwill do, I hope, if ever you come into this) Let them be never fo well regulated, and never fo excellently fram- ed , your People perhaps will rather chufe the way you have already engag- ed them in, and fooner forfakeyou, than thole fancies in whichyou have ellablifh- ed them. And if this fhould prove fo, what great progrefs (hall you have made towards the perfeEtion of a Church by this Method, when tho' it fhould gain your Point, and help to effea thefe de- fired Alterations ; yet it hath, before this be accomplifhed, laid the foundation of perpetual divifion in the Land ; hath pre- judiced the People againf1 the Eflablifhed may, tho' you joyn with it ; hath taught them to relifh, and to value beyond mea- fure a way diffinE from it, and oppofite to it ; and to be proof againff all Argu- ments taken from the univerfal Good, and Peace of the Church, and the common IntereFt of Proteflants. Indeed I would gladly hope (as I have before laid) that you have that Inter& and Authority with your People, and that your Example and Perfuafion will have that influence over them, that, if ever that happy time fhould come when you should think fit to
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