a4 The Reafinablenefi the fame fort would certainly have been thenwanting.Whatever depends fomuch upon the prudence, and contrivance, of irnperfea, fallible, fhort.fightedCrea- tures, as the confiitution of a National Church doth, muff, without doubt, have force marls of their imperfeaion upon it, and cannot bedeviled foperfect, and complete, that nothing can be added to it, which may be truly faid to be ne- e(' fart' to the moregeneral reaching thegreat ends of Religion. It can hardly be fuppof- ed, that fuch a per, fiction can be attained in any Church on Earth, that it may be with truth affirmed, that nothing ne- ceffary to that end is wanting. Much lets can it be fuppofed, that fuch a per_ fechioncanbeattained inanyEffablìfbment, that many perfons Mall not imagine many neceffary things to be wanting in it, and many things in it very much out of order, and very much amifs. If this plea, therefore, be admitted as fufzicient to juflify a feparation, a wide door is opened to numberlefs, and endlefs fepa- rations ; for as long as imperfeéhon be. longs to the nature of Man, fo long will it belong to., any Conftitutions that depend upon the prudence, and wifdornof Man. This
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