of CONFORMITY. I[ .9 upon force conhderations ; nay, that they ought not in duty to do it. Pa- Af"16g. rifb-Order, we are told in the name ofp. 54 your People, hath it's advantages, and is tobe prefer'd, when more weighty rearor.:°s ao not offer. Give me leave, then, from this to infer, that there may be reafons fufficient to move the People to recede from this Right, fovehemently contend- ed for , and to acquiefce in the way Efiablifhed. And, as this is granted to be their duty, on force occafìons , fo we find it praaifed by many of thole who make up your own Congregations, who often, for the fake of Peace, and Love, and Order, think it their duty to acquiefce in the Perfon chofen by the major part of the Congregation; and yet this majority hath no more right to im- pofe a P,afiour upon the other part of the Congregation, or upon any one fingle Perfon in it, than the Magifirate, or the Bifhop, or any Patron hath. This then we fee accounted by them a fufficient inducement to relinquifh this Right, that by fo doing, they íhall contribute to the increafe of Love, and Quiet ; and con- lult the Peace, andOrder of that Congre- ¡ation they belong to, tho' they be noç 3 fe4.
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