2 The Reafnablenef the Caufe of greater variance and flrife, and illwill amongfl neighbours , than thisChoice, and the time of Elehtion is commonly the time of heat, and anger; and it ends often in a bad Choice, and in the alienation of the minds of many Men from their Brethren, and from their Minifler, worthy, or not worthy. I would not haveyou think, that I argue barely from fuch ill confequences as thefe, to Phew that any Right is to be given up ; for I am fenfîble, at this rate, We might argue our felves out of all Rights, and this would be of the worll conic- quence imaginable. But I argue thus ; There confequences of a general enjoy- ment, and exercife of this Right, are worfe than any, which willfollow upon a general acquiefcing in the way now fettled : taking this into the account, that there is fuch a provifion for the fouls of Men in the Churchof England, that they are not in the leafl danger, or, under the leafl necefl ty of feeking any farther afliflances in a feparate way ; . which, I hope, I have already proved, and Mall fay fomewhat more to, pre- featly. And fromhence it appears, that this Rightis not offuchmightyadvantage
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