tber. But I hope we tnay \veil enou.gh fpare the pains, and en1ploy the time to bet– ter purpofc. Vor you who are aifen1b!cd in this houfe arc perfuaded, I trufi, of the lawfulnefs of your own praCtice; ·and we cacnot direCt-our fpeech to thofe that arc .abfcnt fron1 it. And realy it were to be \viilied, that there were lefs noife and de.: bate about matters of this nature; and that, being agreed in the more fubflantial parts of religion, ~ve did all €haritably. aq~1irfce in that excellent advice of the apoftle, which he givcth in ,a parallel 1nftance, Let not him that eateth, de(pi/e him. tbat eateth not; and let- not him. that eateth not~. judg·e him that eateth. And then, as we ihall not a– bate any thing of that love and reverence whieh we owe to the piety and truth of thofe who differ fron1 us in fo ft11ail mat- . ters; fo we might hope they would not be hafty to conden1n us, if, in cori1pliance whh the ancient church, and the prcfei1t confli– tution of our own, we take occafion of this feafon, with thankfulnefs, to remen1b~r the greatefl: benefit that ever was conferred on the children of n1.en, and at this time per– fonn that fervice which can never be un– feafonable. ' However, I an1 confident it .'is both 1nore hard and, nccdfary to reet:ify and
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