44 The Realnablenef could not have been their duty to have attended upon you merely on this ac- count, tofupportyou inyour Duty ; becaufe, upon this fuppofition, it could not have been your duty to minifter publickly, even tho' we Mould grant it to be your duty tobe ready tominifier if the People would attendupon you. And you might have been ready to minier publickly upon this fuppofition, without aaually doing it ; and that is all your Ordination-holy could oblige you to, no Mad being obliged to impoffibilities, or abfurdities, Suppofing therefore, that it is your duty tobe ready to minifler publickly, if the People will attend upon you (which is the utmof that can be Said) yet, if they attend not upon you, they hinder not you from doing what you are obliged to do ; your readinefs to Minifer, in thisCafe, being your whole Duty. Betides, you your felves will grant (at leaf, you often argue fo in your own Caufe) that if they think their neceff ties can be better fupplied by others than by you, they ought to follow thofe others. This your Peopleare taught to think. Fromhence, therefore, it follows, that they are not obliged to attendupon you
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