( 279) (2.) Their Impo4tion was meerly doîfrinal, wherein there was no Pretence of any A& of Government or governing Power ; which made it lets grievous, then that which the Diffenters have fuffered under. Were things no otherwife impofed on us, we fhould bear them more eafily. Saith he, They impofed the yewifh Rites as"necef fry to Salvation, and not meerly as indifferent things ; And the Truth is, fo long as they judged them fo to be, they are more to be excufed in their doCtrinal Impoftions of them, then others are, whoby an A& of Govern- ment fortified with I know not howmany Penalties, do impofe things which themfelves efteem indifferent ; and thofe on whom they are impofed, do judge tobe unlawful. Whereas he addes that he path çonfderecl all things that are Material inmy Thfcourfe which:fean to takeofthe force of the ./Argument drawn from this Text; I am not- of his Mind, nor I believe will any indifferent Perlon be fo, who íhall compare what I wrote therein, with his exceptions againff it; though I acknowledge it is no carte thing to difcover wherein the forceof thepretend- ed Argument Both lye; That, we muff walk according unto the fame Rule, in what we have attained that whereinwe differ, we muff wait on God for Teaching and Inftru&ion ; that, the Apoftles, Elders and Bre- thren at HierufTern; determined from theScriptures, or the Mind of the Holy Ghoft therein, that the yewflt Ceremonies fhould not be impofed on the Gentile Chur- ches and Beleivers; and that thereon thofe Churches - continued in Communion with each other, who did, and did not obferve thofe Ceremonies, are the only Principles
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