Maddox - BX9329 M3 1740

[ 38 1 People, did, at moil, amount to One Hundred . And of thefe Minilters feve- ral, tho' they prefer'd the Geneva Mo- del, yet could, and a&ually did comply with the eftablithed Form, and were Beneficed in the Church. Let us then take an impartial View of this Matter, and in order to form a Judgment, remember what Mr. N. Pays, Pag. 42. with an Air of Triumph againft Bithop Burnet," is it reafonable cc that the Majority tloulddepart from " their Sentiments in Religion, becaufe " the PRINCE with the Minority are of another Mind ? Sure then, if the Minority, even with the fupreme Ma- gifrate on their Side, had no Right to an Efablithment (for it is of that the Bithop is fpeaking, and to that Mr. .N. obj ó s) a Minority without the Prince, fo fmall a Number as ihould not be called a Minority, an Handful of Men, were extreamly unreajonable to expet the Efabli hment of their own Form of Worthip, and the Extirpation of e- very other. If the vat{ Numbers of gapfts, Lutherans, and of thole both from abroad and at home, who were for King Edward's Reformation, be confider'd,what Pretence, what Shadow of a Pretence had a :tingle. Hundred of Men from Geneva to claim the San- ¿ion

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