Of CONFORMITY. you, in order tofupport and encourage you in y ur.duty. I entreat you to thinkof this, and, ifyou will deal fairly in this Caufe, you are obliged plainly to deny the one, or the other. For, if it be the People's duty tofupport, and encourage you, then it is not their duty, nay it is not allow-. able for them, to go where their neceffi- ties can bell be fupplied. But, if it be their Duty, or allowable for them, to leave you, in order tohave their necefli- ties better fupplied, then it is not their duty to fupport andencourageyou by their attendance upon you ; becaufe thefe are inconfiífent one with another. Either therefore relinguith this Argument, or give up that popular plea of Edification and the natural, and unalienable right of every Man to chufe his own Pafiour or Thew us how to reconcile them. Farther , You cannot be fo little concerned for the Nation you be- long to, as not to think it would be a verb} confiderable happinefs to it, did all the People ferioufly attend upon the Publick Worfhip in the Efiablifbed Church; were they all perfuaded that the neceßî- ti s oftheir Souls could very well be fup- plied in it, and all refolved to unite, and perrue FART IL
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