Hoadly - BX5136 H6

162 The Reafonablenef to it in their Nonconformity, which are not more thong on the fide of Conform- ity ? If, where the People enjoy this Right, there are often more inconveni- ences feen, than can be (hewn where they donot, and moremifchiefs than can follow upon the not enjoying it (cone fidering how fufficient to all the purpo- fes of Publick %ivor fhip the Legalprovi f on for them is) then it is not worth contend- ing for, nor ought it to be affertedat the expenfe of greater matters. And if in there places there be as many Diffenters ( as in others (ifnot more) it is plain, that the alteration of this would not contri- bute to the uniting us, and that this is not the reafon of their Nonconformity. Both which I have (hewn to be true. Again, If no Conf1itution can be focon- trived, that every Perlon in aParilh (hall live under the Minifiry of the Paflour whomHe himfeif would chufe above all others, as I have obferved ; then this Principle ought not to be infifted on, be- caufe it tends to the utter abolifhing of all Parochial Communion, and to eternal, and infinite Divifions. IfMr. Baxter's Ad- vice to his People be founded on good Reafon, and contain in it the only true Grounds

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