Hoadly - BX5136 H6

'188 The Rearonablenef as what you here fixupon it. Is this Form of Prayer, amended to your own wifbes, preferable to that method of Prayer which you have fet up inoppo;lion to it ? If it be, then 1. argue, That you now con - flantly ufe a method in Publick Worfhip which You acknowledge to be lefs eligi- ble, and worfe than another ; and there- fore, that the Confiant ufe of, and joyn- ing with, any one way, of Publick Wor- fhip, even though it be upon Choice, doth not reprefent it as preferable toall others , and much lefs, when Authority hath com- manded the `Ufe of it. If it be not, then I argue, That You would joyn confiantly with a FormofPublick Worfhip not prefer- able to all others. And therefore, that it cannot be your Opinion, that Confiant Communion implies in it any fuch declara- tion as, that this Formof Publick Worfhip is abfolutely, and in it Pelf preferable to all others. Anfwer which wayyou pleafe the Conclufâon is the fame : And I will be bold to fay, that you muff either contra- did your (elves, or acknowledge, that this is no Circumfiance of Confiant Com- munion ; and coafequently, that it can be no Argument againft it. Betides this, I argue thus with you, Your Separatiop reprf

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