( 43 ) this. For if you have framed your Opini- ons fo, as to think meanly of the Publick Service of the Eftablafhed Church, in comparifon with the ways of Wor(bip fet up in oppofition to it ; (which f cannot imagine to proceed from any thing, but Education, or Cufloin ;) Con- fiant Communion doth not oblige you to think, or declare the contrary : Nor Both it neceffarily imply any thing in it, but that you do, upon force Confe- derations, prefer it before Separation; whether for its own fake, or the fake of the Publick Peace, and 'Unity, no one can judge from the PraElice of it. And confequently, the Principles of Moderation, this way explained, cannot reafonably influence you againft ConPant Conformity ; becaufe Con.Ftant Conformi- ty is the befl way of expreflîng that Re- gard which is certainly due to Peace, and Concord; and becaufe it implies no- thing in it, that can oblige you to place an unlufi Value upon any Part of our Constitution. Whatfoever, therefore, be fuppofed to be the Nature, and Office, of Chriiiian Moderation, it is evident, that it muft rather
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