Hoadly - BX5136 H6

f I (14) comply juf'c according to your deliires; I fee not how this can poffibly diffolve your Obligation to confult the Peace and `Unity of the Church of ChriFt. Put the Cafe, that You your (elves were in Au- thority, and had contrived and effa- blifhed a particular Form of Church- Government, and Worfhip, according to the belt Light, and the true{± judgment of your own Confciences; would you think it juftifiable, or tole- rable, that a number of Men Mould Separate from your E.Ftablif {indent, not becaufe any thing was required of them which they accounted Sinful, but be- caufe you would not comply with all their Demands, and new Model it ac- cording to all their Wifhes. And yet this is jul3c the Cafe before us. Your Superiors have er ahlifhed a Form, as it was their Duly to do, agreeably to their belt Judgment. r`ou do not judge any thing in their Conffitution unlawful, as far as Fur' Compliance is concerned. But you think it highly reafonable that they fhould Act according toyour judg- ments, and make Alterations according to your Defires : And becaufe they refufe to

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