The Ileafonableneß and do not defervea few of yourferious thoughts. And now, to conclude this Head, give me leave to invert your Argument, and to argue thus with you upon your own Principle. If the Confiderationof ob- taining thefe Amendments have been of that mighty force with you, as to move you to venture upon a thingof fuchCone fequence, as a Formal Separation, and a ditlnEway ofPublick Worfhip from that Efl-ablifbed ; of how much greater force ought this Confideration to have been, in moving you to a quiet and peaceable Conformity, as far as your Confciences couldgive leave? My Reafon is, Becaufe this would have been much the more likely way of accompliíhing the End You had in view. If the profpea of this, there- fore, moved you to Separation,which will .. never effe& it ; let the profped of this carry you toConformity, which (as it bath not fo many ill Confequences, ío it) hath a greater likelihood of effeEing it. As far, therefore, as this Argument can pre- vail, I thinkverily it mutt prevail on the fide of Conformity: For I may appeal to the Reafon and Experience of Mankind, and to the known Movements of Hu- mane
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