think, that the Toleration, allowed by the fame Laws which have eftablifbed the Church of England, bath wholly taken off your Obligation ; and diffolved all that Necelhty , you might otherwife have been under, of conforming to the Church of England. Now, fuppoing it to be in the powerof a Toleration to leave you fo far at liberty , pray confider, whether the Toleration which you al- lege, was ever deigned to give thisLi- berty to fuch asacknowledgeComrflunion with theE(tablijbedChurch, to be lawful ; and confequently, whether thevery de- fign ofthe T'oleration, do not rather con- demn, than acquit you. But it lignifies little, in our prefent Caufe, whether this be fo, or no. For I argue not meerly from the Eflablifhment of the Church by civil Laws : But from thole Obligations to regard the Peace, and Concord of Chri.Ftians, which are ever the fame, with, and without, the In- terpolition of the civil Power. It is e- ver" the Duty of ChriJtians to have the farne íaered Regard to them and fuch a Duty as can never be difpenfed with. So that were the Church of England only the
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