Is 1 to do this, therefore you will feparate from them. This, I fay, is what , 41 could never excufe in others; and there- fore what you ought not to excufe in your (elves. This is what tends to the diffolving all Ord,r, and Decency, in the World. For tho' Obedience benot fy- pofed due to the Per/ons whomyou think unteafonable ; yet certainly a aria Re- gard is due to publtck Peace and 'Unity: And to what purrfedo wet Ik of fuch anobligation upon all Men ? Or to what end do we take thefe%acred Words into our Mouths, if we can difpenfe with all regard to them, upon fuch Pretences as thefe? If our obligation to Compliance be diffolved, whenever the judgment of our Superiors is not conformable to our own, it is in vain for us to fpeak ofan Eitablifhrnent : And if there be never a- ny neceffity for us to regard Peace and tinity, but when the Eftablifhment of our Superiors is agreeable toour Wifhes, we do but prophane thole bleifed Words, when we .molt pretend to exalt and magnifie them. Certainly, it is the ve- ry Spirit of the Gofpel, to comply even with the unreafonable Demands of C 2 others ; 4 4
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