Ought to be Joined Tithal. 191 Ch.irches Edification may be bell obtained ? If this be not the Ball between us, I know not what is. Now herein. do not all the Writers and Preachers of both Parties give their Reafans and Arguments unto the Peo- ple, why Edification is better to be had in the one Church then in the other ? and do they not require of them to form a Judgment upon thole Keafons and Argu- ments, and to a& accordingly ; if they do not, they do but make a Flourifh, and a& a Part, like Players ona Stage, without any determinate Defìgn. (e.) All Chriflians aClualy dofo ; they do judge for themfelves, unlefs they are brutifh ; they doA& accord- ing unto that. Judgment, unlefs they are hardened in Sin ; and therefore who do not fo , are not to be efleemed Difciples of Chrifl.To fuppofe that in all things ofSpiritual and Eternal Concernment,, that men are not determined and ailed, every one by his own Judgment, is an Imagination of men who think but little of what they are, or do, or fiy, or Write. Even thole who fhut their Eyes againft the Light, and follow in the Herd, refòlvingnot to enquire into any ofthfe things, do it, becaufe they judge it is be ft for them f to do. (q..) It is commonly acknowledged by `Protefants,. that private Chriflians have a judgement ofDifretion in . things ofReligion. The Term was invented to grant them f°ome Liberty ofJudgement in Oppofition unto the blind Obedience required by the Church of Rome ; but withal to put a re.ftraint upon it, and a diffin&ion of fome fuperiour Judgement, it may be in the Church or' others. But ifby Difiretion, they mean the beft ofmens Vnderftanding, Knowledge, Wifdom, and Prudence, in and about the things wherein it is exercifed, I fhould be glad to be informed, what other judgement, than this. of
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