62 The `Preface. ofChrift? What ifthey areitnlawful and unwarrantable,the LordChrifi not having givenPowerand Authorityunto any fort ofmen tomake any fuch Conftitutions? What if theyare the great ways andmeans ofbreaking the `Z`ni- tyand 'Peace of the church? Thefe and other Enquiries ofthe like nature muft,be clearly refolved, not by the Dictates of viens own Minds and spirits, but from the Word of Truth, before this Intimation can be compli- ed withal. But that which is fallen out moil beyond Expe&ation in this whole Difcourfe, is that the Reverend Author feeking by all ways and means, countenancedwith the kart femblance or appearance of Truth , to load the on -Coi f rnri.fls and their Caufe with the Im- putation of things invidious and burdenfome, fhould fix upon, their Prayers, by vertue ofthe Grace and Gift of Prayer which they have received , afcribing the Original of its Vfi unto the Artifice and Infinuation of the yefnites, as he doth, Prof pag. 14, i 5. But be- caufe I look on this as a thing of the greatest importance. of all the Differences between them and us, as that wherein the Life ofReligion, the Exercife ofFaith,and the Labour of Divine Love do much confiff, the Na- ture and Nece f ty ofthat kind of Prayer, which is here refle&ed on and oppofed, thall ( God willing) be declared and vindicated in a peculiar Difcourfè unto that Purpofe. For the Differences that are between us cannot poflibly have any more pernicious confequence, then ifwe fhould be influenced by them to oppofe or condemn any Principles or Exercife of the Duties of Pra&ical Holinefs, as thinking them to yeild matter of advantage to one Party or another. The
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