of CONFORMITY. ¡69 forward their awn private ends under the cloak of Separation, and the colour of greater purity than they will allow their neighbours ? Would You have a National Conftitution, or not ? Or, would your own Amendments make it fo per- fea in its difcipline, that there fhould be none feen in it but pious and devout perfons , and fuck as have renounced a flefhy, and fenfual, a worldly and profane life ; fo perfea, that none that deferve Genfure fhould be skreen'd, and none that deferve encouragement fhould be centâred ? Can You undertake for this ? and can You undertake that your People fhould think fo ? For if they fhould not be fo perfuaded, they lie under the fame ne- ceffity of feparation f ill. If your own Amendments would not do this? (as I dare fay they will not) then You do ill, to produce that as a confiderable Plea for your People which You would not think fufficient to keep yourfelves from Conforming to the ChurchofEngland ; and thus to perpetuate the Caufe of Divi- fion amongft us. Again, Becaufe the People are obliged to difapprove this defect in the Church, and to bear teflimo- y againfl this fatal negleöt of forne in it, which
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