Of CONFORMITY: 127 to fubmit to the Efzablifhed Terms, and Conform to the Church of England, Your People will be induced to follow you, andConform alfa. Some, I doubt not, will: But this Separation and your behaviour in it, will have nopart in perfuading them 10 it. And for the generality of the Pepple, my fears are, that it hath eífa- bafhed, and harden'd them in another courfe, and fo inur'd them to it, that nothing at laft may be able to remove their prejudices ; to convince their judg- ments, or draw their affe&ions to Con- formity. We know not the utmofl force of prejudices once entertained, encour- aged, and ftrengthen'd by many Year's practice : But we know the force of them to be great, and almoft unconquerable; and this ought to make us always afraid, left for the fake of avoiding a little pre- fent inconvenience, or the obtaining a little prefent good, we should prevent a much greater good in times to come, and run into a much greater inconveni- ence. It fhouldmake us afraid of doing any thing towards the cherifhing, and ftrenthening fuck unreafonable Errours, and wrong Notions in a multitude of People, as may, one timeor other, {land in .
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