(33) the fettled Church of the Place, with- out the Eftablifhment ofcivil Latvs, your Obligations to. Conformity would be Rill indifpenfable ; becaufe you could not confult thePublick Happinefs,, and Peace, without it. Nor can any Toleration diffolve- thefe Obligations; becaufe no Toleration can difi'olve your Obligations to confult the Publick Happinejs, and Peace, as much as you poffibly can. This remains the Duty of a Chriltian for ever: Nothing can difengage him from it, but the utter Impoffibility of the thing, or the Inconfittency ofit with his own Innocence, and eternal Salva- tion. But when you fpeak of Toleration, the very mention of it cannot but put you in mind, that theChurch of England hath not only Prefcription, and a fettled PofeJfion, to plead for it felf, but alfo an Eftablifhment by civil Authority, as well as Ecclefiajiical. And, therefore, if you fhould fix it only upon this, as you often do, yet this is fufficient to con- demn your Difregard to it; as long as any Regard is acknowledged to be due to the Injunctions, and Prefcriptions, of lawful
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