which be Devout and Honorable Women laden with sins and lead away with divers lusts Epistle of St Jude ver 19. Those that separate themselves let them pretend never so much to holiness and piety they are sensual and they have not the Spirit such are they who ver 3. while the True Apostles do contend earnestly for the Common salvation and the Faith of it once delivered to the Saints creep in unawares turning the grace of God into lasciviousness v. 8. These are filthy Dreamers or in the language of our time Mad Diviners Ecstatical Enthusiasts who despise Dominions and speak evil of Dignities ver 10. They speak evil of those things which they know not inimicum praeter ignorantem Religion as well as Learning has no enemy but the Ignorant whilst wisdom and piety are justified by their Children but otherwise what these gainsayers do know naturally we must own them since they have the faces of men to be reasonable creatures and yet as brute beasts in those things which they seem to know they corrupt themselves that is they do as much confound themselves as they do amuse others with their brain-sick imaginations Wo wo unto them says our Apostle for they have gone in the way of Cain it is but of late sad remembrance setting every mans sword against his Brother onely because their sacrifices of sin were not accepted they have run greedily after the error of Balaam for a reward whilst that gain was their greatest Godliness Oh! that they had perished in the very act of gainsaying like Corah and his Company when they exalted themselves above the Congregation of the Lord These are spots in your feasts yea though they be Feasts of charity their Love feasts in the Family of Love a private secret Conventicle feeding themselves without fear Clouds they are without water like their Master Prince of the air and yet fire if any is the element predominant and these like Salamanders can live onely in the fire they are carried about of winds tossed too and fro with every blast of false and erroneous Doctrine Trees they are whose fruit withereth nay they have no fruit that is good twice dead why do they any longer cumber the ground they are raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame and that 's nothing but mire and durt so that because of the Tempest which they have raised there are no Halcyon days the Kings Fishers cannot build their nests in these troubled waters They are stars too but not in the right hand of Jesus wandring stars oh when shall they be falling stars usque quo Domine how long O Lord just holy and true when shall it once be unto whom is reserved the blackness of darkness a darkness like that of Egypt which is to be felt the blackness of darkness for ever v. 16. These are murmurers complainers walking after their own lusts running about City Town and Countrey and they grudge if they be not satisfied their mouths speak great swelling words of vanity having mens persons in admiration because of some particular advantage or as another Apopostle has it 2 Tim. 4.3 After their own lusts they heap up Teachers to themselves having itching ears and to sum up all with that which gave me occasion to paraphrase so much upon this Epistle These are they who separate themselves they are not moved nor acted by the Holy â—host the Devil has too much power over them if St. Jude's Epistle be Scripture and I guess by this time since they find themselves so exactly described in it they could wish it out of our Bibles since this is the best character that he can afford them that they are sensual and they have not the Spirit These are they and this is the manner of them who neglect the assembling of themselves together imitating the Primitive and the Apostolical times in nothing but in the divisions and dissentions of false Brethren who do not in the least consider that they are baptized into a Christian Faith in which Faith we have these two Articles in which we believe a Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church and the Communion of Saints the Catholick Church is but One and the Communion of it throughout the Christian World is Visible and the next Article to these is the Remission of sins which we obtain and have a right to by our being Baptized and so made Members of the Body of Christ and therefore another Creed has it by way of explanation thus that we are to believe One Baptisme for the Remission of sins as if out of the Visible Communion of the Catholick Church into which we are admitted by Baptisme there is to be no Remission and for this I urge our Saviours words S. Mat. 18.17 Dic Ecclesiae Tell it to the Church but if he neglect to hear the Church let him be unto thee as a Heathen man and a Publican such a one whom the People of the Jews counted to be dead in their sins and trespasses Not without good reason therefore has our Church in her most excellent constitutions made this one of her wholsome laws Cannon 11th That whosoever shall affirm that there are within this Realm other Meetings Assemblies or Congregations of the Kings born subjects then such as by the Laws of this Land are held and allowed which may rightly challenge to themselves the name of a true and of a lawful Church let him be excommunicated and not restored but by the Arch-bishop after his repentance and revocation of such his wicked errours Surely there is somthing extraordinary in the matter or else I should not be thus earnest I would ask the Separatists of our age this one serious and sober question Have ye Souls to be saved or no little do they think into what danger they put their own immortal souls by a schism and a separation they do as much as in them lies forego the ordinary means appointed by God for their salvation Now God in his wonderful Providence has made the Administration of his Gospel to be glorious in the midst of us the light to shine bright in our Candlestick Divine Services to be dispensed and Holy Offices to be performed even in the outward Beauty of Holiness Now for a froward and a peevish generation to place the service of God in one of the most damning sins that can be committed for ought I know by that little Divinity I have been acquainted with if it be wilfully persisted in and they add Obstinacy to their Separation it may in time come up to be the unpardonable sin the sin against the Holy Ghost Schisme and Division from the Churches community Oh! what shall we say unto these men Oh more foolish then were those Galatians Who has bewitched them that they should not obey the Truth Formerly yea before our Saviours time higher then yet hitherto I have brought my proof it was Davids choice to be a door keeper in the House of God rather then to
which are good and profitable and which tend to peace Which is the Fifth and last Instance of the great Benefit here in the Text unto the whole Community from the present Dispensation and that once again yet another reflection upon the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the more or the rather was this great addition made to the Church all this because of what they saw and what they heard which denotes even in the Multitudes in the Women as well as in the Men an act of their free choice upon a most sober and mature deliberation Here was no violence at all offered upon their faculties though it was the terrour of the Lord in a most dreadful judgment yet it kindly perswades them the Signes and Wonders were both Miraculous and Convincing the solemn and holy Convention because Beautiful therefore of it self desireable the Miracles of Providence though they were surpassing yet they were clear and manifest so that at this time as at all others God drew the People unto himself with the cords of a Man that so whilst he drew they might of themselves run after him they were a willing People though it was a day of power they saw what was done they heard what was spoken and throughout they were convinced of all so that it was here an act both of their judgement and their reason in that they did deliver themselves up unto the obedience of Faith Believers were the more or the rather added to the Lord Multitudes of men and women I need not neither have I time to prosecute it as I should here urge that God works with us and within us in order to salvation as we are men and reasonable creatures he proposeth everlasting happiness to us in his Word or by his Church as to our free voluntary choice and whilst he does kindly allure us he doth at the same time leave us in the hand of our own counsel See I have set before you Fire and Water Blessing and a Curse Life and Death chuse you whether you will says God by his Prophet Deu. 30.19 But I am confined both by the time and the Text that I cannot descant so closely as I might upon this Probleme which is indeed too much controverted At present I take it for granted that which I suppose every one experienceth upon consulting his own thoughts that we are all of us as men endued with reason free sreatures and voluntary Agents and that we would do good but evil is present with us because we are not in our judgments or to our senses sufficiently convinced as we might of what is best And therefore since the Design of all that hitherto is inferred from this Text is to promote Vnity and Vniformity amongst Brethren professing Godliness which is here the Holy solemnity The Apostles with the Primitive Christians all with one accord in a holy Place and upon this their persons reverenced the Word of Life was magnified it did not return in vain but accomplished the work for which it was sent for the Benefit was great and exceeding prosperous for a parting now to this subject so much insisted on in one word fain I would perswade shall we suffer the word of exhortation Be entreated to frequent Solomons Porch the Author because of that August solemnity and Ministration that is in it we should with David be glad to go up unto the House chuse to be a Door-keeper in the Porch to wait at the Gates of Wisdom rather than assemble amidst the Congregations of the wicked Tell me says the Spouse to Christ Cant. 1.7 where thou feedest where thou makest thy flocks to rest at noon and this was her kind expostulation Why should I be as one that turneth aside from the flocks of thy Companions our Saviour there feedeth where he is himself fed upon the flocks are there together yea and at rest and that at noon Separation is a work of Darkness chuseth to it self the night To turn aside is to be as one Vae soli alone and woe to him that is alone this the greatest both sin and misery to forsake those flocks which in love and Vnity are companions Behold then may the Separatists of our Age see that I have set before them Fire and Water Blessing and a Curse Life and Death Chuse they whether they will Fire not a strange fire but that of the Sanctuary a pure and bright flame of Love upon Gods Altar Water alas the waters are troubled schism and sedition is a tempestuous sea casting forth mire and dirt Blessing even that which is out of Sion good luck and Prosperity out of the House of the Lord A Curse none more bitter to be cut off from the Congregation what will our Schismaticks thus invade the Priests Office will they excommunicate themselves and deliver themselves up to Satan shall God by his Prophet call unto them and say stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths where is the old way the good way because the old way and amidst all our tumblings and tossings from one post to another we cannot find a better Shall God command peremptorily that we walk in these ways with a promise of rest unto our souls for out of such paths there is nothing but disorder and disquietude and shall we return that answer which the Jews did Jer. 6.16 But they said we will not walk therein Thus the Rebells against their settled and fixed administration of old Korah and his Accomplices Numb 14.2 Moses called them to the Congregation and they said We will not come up they turned their backs to the Tabernacle Satan therefore claimed them for his Synagogue and soon took possession of them Hell from beneath was moved to meet them at their coming The Earth opened her Mouth and they went down alive into the Pit and therefore yet once more may the Sons of Belial who cast off every yoke see this day set before them Life and Death and that in the utmost extremity in the eternity of both Life a Life of of Grace here in order to glory hereafter and still out of Sion goes forth this Blessing the Promise of Life for evermore Christ with whom are the words of eternal Life is not to be found as I must again and again inculcate in the Wilderness or in the secret Chamber but in Solomons Porch by the Chair of Moses not in the Stool of Wickedness or in the Seat of the Scornful he is head of all things to his Church in the Communion of which alone we expect salvation without there is nothing but sin sin that excludes from pardon the wages of which is Death Solomon hath in a Proverb told us the misery of those who turn aside from his Porch The Man that wandreth out of the way out of the beaten path of understanding shall fall into the Congregation of the Dead And now let our Schismaticks chuse for themselves I have in this though a private Person yet with
a publick spirit as publick as is their sedition in some sort delivered my own soul and they shall not perish without warning and that repeated with as much vehemency as are their Divisions God in mercy give a Blessing And so may they see yet again how I do set before them fire and water and will they chuse the water alas the waters of Separation are waters of bitterness Massah and Meribah be their name and Marah is their tast they are themselves as it were baptized strife and contention and so noisome loathsome and every way unsavory is their rellish But the Fire is from the Lord in the Sanctuary it is a Refiners fire and a coal from the Altar that so all iniquity may be done away Blessing and a Curse and will they chuse the curse it is Anathema Maranatha A curse untill Christ come against all those who love not the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Communion of his Saints But this the Blessing when the Spirit shall say come and the Bride shall say come and the Church shall say come and every one that has set heart to seek the Lord the Lord God of his Fathers shall also come that so God may translate his Church which is here terribly Militant as an Army with banners in good order and in due aray unto Trophies and Triumphs in that glory which shall be everlasting And so look they once more and behold and chuse they whether they will Life and Death and will they chuse Death Death which shall never have an end the reward of those who do wilfully reject the means and the passage unto Life Oh! that at length they would believe schism and separation to be a damning Sin that they would not place the worship of God in the ways and amidst the sons of perdition I 'le leave a Text or two for them to urge upon themselves and can there be plainer words than these Rom. 13.2 They that resist that power which is the Ordinance of God or which is all one that Power which commands Obedience unto Gods Ordinance shall receive unto themselves Damnation 2 Pet. 3.1 3. False Prophets and false Teachers bring upon themselves swift Destruction whose judgment of a long time lingreth not and their Damnation slumbereth not Epist of St. Jude v. 13. These are wandring stars not keeping within their proper and appointed Orbs in order to a regular and an equal revolution Vnto whom is reserved the Blackness of Darkness for ever But after all this Life and Peace to those that seek and keep peace in the fear and love of God and of those that are set over them To conclude Let us be perswaded as we are men and Christians to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace considering that God is terrible in his judgments against the Rebellious and Sacrilegious he is wonderful in his providence for the defence of those that wait and call upon him his wrath is dreadful unto Death his loving kindness is surpassing and in his favour is Life The Assembling together of his Saints is Venerable and Awful God is honoured in the midst whilst due Reverence is paid to those that are round about him considering all these things what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy Conversation and Godliness we should be no longer faithless but believing may we the more and the rather be added to the Church as Believers in the Lord and may this number increase to Multitudes of every age and of every Sex both Men and Women our Churches Prayer shall with little alteration be the close of all We Pray thee O Lord Help thy Servants whom thou hast redâ—emed with thy most Precious Blood Make them to be numbred with thy Saints here in a holy Communion and hereafter in glory everlasting To which God of his infinite Mercy bring us all to whom be ascribed Honour Praise and Adoration to Father Son and Holy Ghost One God and three Persons and that of all Ages in the Church by Christ Jesus world without end Amen Lord Mercifully receive the Prayers of thy Church that all troubles and errors being quenched it may serve thee in quietness and grant us peace in our days Amen A BAD AND A Good Zeal DESCRIBED and LIMITED Gal. 4.17 18. 17. They zealously affect you but not well yea they would exclude you that you might affect them or us 18. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing and not only when I am present with you IT was even in our Saviours time the Hypocritical Devotion of the Pharisees and is at this day the Pharisaical Hypocrisie both of the Conclave and the Consistory to compass Sea and Land to make one Proselyte and when he is gained they make him two-fold more the child of Hell then themselves so that the last estate of the poor man is worse than his beginning But as for us Woe unto us unless that our Religion do exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees their industry was both commendable and imitable if we could abstract their Labour of Love as they call it from the malice of their intention we may hear them both while they sit in the Chair of Moses but not when their design is to tumble Moses out of his Chair not when they rebell against Moses the Servant of the Lord and vex Aaron the Saint of God their long Prayers were not amiss no though they were in the Markets and the corners of every street when they made their great solemn and pompous Processions that they might be seen of men and so give an example of Devotion unto the World but we must beware of them when we find that upon this pretence they devour Widdows Houses when they commit a rapine upon the portion of the Widdow and of the Fatherless their long Robes were no such hainous crime nor their Phylacteries upon their Garments in which are supposed to have been written in Capital Letters the Ten Commandements of God to put the People in mind of their Duty but this was their fault when they proposed the Law as a Precept of obedience unto others and most shamefully and wickedly broke it in every Precept themselves in a word it is an Evangelical Precept the command of Christ himself with which Holy Church begins and exhorts to her offertory That we let our Light shine before men even the Light of our Profession in the publick attestations of our Religion we may be both burning and shining Lights but we must be careful that there be the oyl of good works to feed the flame lest men rejoyce in our Light only for a season and because they cannot behold a pious and a holy conversation directed by the fear of God therefore they do not glorifie our Father which is in Heaven we are to be watchful then that we try the hot Spirits of zeal that are abroad inthe world whether they be
back slidings that had been made Oh say they The People must be regarded and one way or other we will please them But what says our well-resolved Apostle These insinuating Zealots have a kind affection but it is not well let them talk never so much of Comprehension the result of all must needs be Exclusion either they will Exclude you or us for the whole and sole Designe is that you might affect them Let no man blame me therefore that I will not in the least give way but still I will keep the right hand of fellowship for I have laboured more then all the rest that I am so exceedingly zealous for the Gospel which I have preached unto you that you should stand in it because I have delivered no more then what I received and that according to the Scriptures and is there not a Cause that I should be thus earnest especially is not the cause good Yes surely it is good to be always zealously affected affected provided it be in a good thing why not we as well as they in that which is bad I could wish even you my Galatians in the same circumstances with my self and that not only out of Fear because of my Authority when I am present with you but out of love to the thing it self when I am absent from you This is the Scope and Coherence of the words in which an account is given us both of a good and a bad Zeal as they are contradistinguished from and to each other the one is condemned and the other is commended and that in general because of these two qualifications in each of them 1. That which is bad is commonly of Persons either to make a party they affect you to be added to their Number or to Magnifie themselves they would that you should affect onely them 2. That which is good and commendable is always 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a good thing that is it is guided by a good Rule managed upon a good matter and directed by a good intention To be a little more close and particular The two Verses will be the Subject of two Discourses for the first which is a Description of a bad or a wicked zeal it is described to us to be not as it should be in these particulars First In relation to the Object Zeal is reprehensible when it is of Persons not of Things 〈◊〉 of Men and not their Graces 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they zealously affect you you your very selves not any thing that is good in you nor any good that is toward you Secondly In relation to the Subject when the Affectators of this kind are not rightly qualified either as to affection or intention 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adverbs either crown or debase our Actions They Zealously affect you but not well Thirdly In relation to the Zeal it self when it is such a kind of Zeal as does directly in its consequence tend to Separation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they would either exclude you or us that is separate us from you and you from us Fourthly Yet once more Zeal is Bad in relation to the Zealots themselves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when they would fain set the Church on Fire to warm themselves by the flameof it by thus gaining Disciples not so much to their Cause as to their Party yea chiefly in this every Zealot plays a private game by himself alone from the rest of his Company whilst they thus many times supplant one another in gaining Proselytes each man to himself wishing that the people might affect them And is not all this exceeding wicked in such a Maze of Ungodliness a Mystery of iniquity as this how shall they that are approved be made manifest we had need to look about us seriously and to bethink our selves who may be in the company conversing with us such as may have a Zealous affection for us but not well since their Design may be altogether Exclusion onely that they themselves might be affected But notwithstanding this let us hearken to our Blessed Apostle see him here watching for the souls of these Galatians even in their own way counter-working the Designes of the enemy far he is from approving a Laodicean temper of being neither hot nor cold the temper of such whom God shall one day spue out of his mouth and whilst they live they are a loathing to all good men he would not have us be like Ephraim a Cake that is dough baked but he takes Occasion from the industry of the Adversary to recommend to them and to us all the like Diligence and that with as great an earnestness assuring them that it is good to be always zealously affected in a good thing and so much the better and the more commendable if it be not only when their Apostle is present with them In which words in order to the commendation of a pious and a holy zeal we have Two parts 1. Approbatio ipsa The Approbation it self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is good to be zealous 2ly Ratio Approbandi The reason of that Approbation and that taken First Ab Objecto From the Object 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it must be in a good thing Secondly Ab Habitu The Habit must be as unlimited as the Object is universally good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it must be always Thirdly Ab Occasione From the Occasion of expressing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to shew that it is a fixed habit unalterable it will chiefly take that occasion to express it when there is most need of it when the Spiritual Apostle or great Pastor is out of the way it is nor an eye Service before men but it is pleasing God as our Apostle here to his Galatians Not only when I am present with you This is the sum of the Text and of what I have to Discourse from it First Let us stand a while and as it were from the Pinacle of the Temple behold our danger let us be careful that we do not in the least miscarry in slipping aside or in falling away from our own steadfastness zeal at the best is but the excrescency of Love when it may either be true or false and therefore we find it no where commanded as a Duty but if it be rightly qualified it is praise worthy as being Good it is a pure flame kept alive and bright in the Ocean it is that fire of Love which many waters cannot quench And yet sometimes it is the overflowing of the Gall and the result of bitter cruel hatred it is as it were fire under the pot when the Stomach boils and the mouth foams out of the aboundance of the heart the mouth does speak and whilst wicked envious and malicious thoughts do blow the coales both tongue and face are on a flame the hands are ready to smite with the fist of violence and the feet are swift to run the wayes of Mischief whilst the passionate zeal
their hands to the most high God in a most wicked and seditious Covenant though by Oath they were obliged to a Canonical Obedience that they would not onely destroy the hewers of wood and the drawers of water from amongst us but sacrilegiously take away both wood and water from the sanctuary leaving us nothing but a strange fire that would have consumed every thing that was sacred from the midst of us These men were like Saul of old of a most bloody house O my soul come not thou into their secret unto their Assembly let me not be united Cursed be their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruel in their anger they flew a Man a Man that was worth ten thousands of men nay two Men unto which the Ages before did never shew the like Moses and Aaron fell both under the same stroke in their self-will they digged down a wall broke through all inclosures to lay our Sion waste and for these sins unrepented of and still persisted in has not our Jerusalem been made a heap of Stones But blessed be our God who raised up Jacob when he was small and have we not seen with our eyes the reward of rebellious sinners God hath scattered them in Jacob they are at this day divided in Israel thus their sin of Division and Separation is the worst of judgments from Gods permission upon them whilst their hearts are hardned through their Disobedience and Vnbelief These are not like David men after Gods own heart the Zeal of Gods house devoured him yea and the Son of David when he twice whip'd the the Buyers and Sellers out of the Temple but their Zeal has been to consume the house of God either to brake down the carved work thereof with Axes and Hammers to destroy all the Synagogues of God in the Land or to prophane those they leave standing some evil Angel or other appointed to hover over the Mercies Seat the Houses of Prayer made so many Dens of Thieves in a word these are like Saul in the New Testament before his conversion Philip. 3. As concerning zeal persecuting the Church not like St. Paul having embraced the Faith of Christ Zealous toward God in that which is good herein always exercising himself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and toward all men That in this Digression whither our unreasonable Zealots as evil workers have carried me I may not loose the scope of my Text These seditious Gnosticks who disturbed the Peace of the Church by obtruding upon the Disciples Mosaical rigours and so bewitching these foolish Galatians from the stedfastness of their obedience both Schism and Rebellion are as the sin of witchcraft had a Zeal for God St. Paul bears them witness but it was not according to knowledge or if they had as their very compellation signifies nothing less then Science yet it was falsly so called the understanding of all mysteries and of all knowledg neither was their Zeal mistaken or blind so much the worse for it was not according to Godliness since they were not careful to square their actions by that Rule of obedience which they did profess They were zealously affected but not well Buâ— on the contrary while St. Paul fights it is the good fight of Faith does he contend earnestly It is for the word of truth which he had received for and delivered to them according to the Scriptures while he does withstand the adversaries to the face it is not his forward zeal or his pious eagerness but their back-sliding their frowardness and peevishness their Dissimulation and Hypocrisie was to be blamed for this he had secured in the first place that the thing for which he contended was just and good and this he was assured of to the last that having no sinister or by designs it was good to be always zealously affected which is the Third and last Thing In which zeal is good in relation to the Object when it is rightly qualified and stated directed to a good end because where there is such a pious care that the thing contended for be good there likewise we do charitably believe that the zeal is guided by a good intention not being over-byassed or over-ballanced by any sinister or by-respects The Pious Zealot is many times counted singular this may be a more charitable reason for the compellation then is usually urged He is indeed singular that is he is neither double-tongued nor double-minded the preparations of his heart are from the Lord. Some mens Zeal is not from an inward principle of Conscience but some outward reason or motive to incite them as was hinted in the close of the former Discourse either the thing for which they are so zealous makes for their interest or else they will make it so while their design is to get a name and to appear some-Body in the world or as bad nay worse then both these because it comprehends them both a sordid and an unworthy compliance for there is a kind of zeal in luke-warmness it self a Complemental congenial Religion in suiting our selves to the company with whom we converse changing faces with every one we meet is an hypocritical principle by which too too many act and walk amongst us These are they who would fain have every ones good word care not much to venture their credit to be evil spoken of in the cause of Piety they are altogether for a good they cannot go thorow a bad report and it is observable that such persons who do thus ambire famam court every ones applause seldom speak well of any but those with whom at present they are conversing their Detraction is as notorious as their flattery and be it for their advantage to steal into the heart to win upon the affections of some leading men of whatsoever Perswasion they are as good at their Satyricks as at Panegyricks they are furnished at all adventures and can as smartly declaim against as possibly not long before to another company they did ingeniously commend the same thing And sad it is but too notoriously apparent that such a humour as this doth transport many men in Religion it self who because of advantage can have Schism and Faction in admiration Men who have as different Behaviours as they have Habits suting themselves to the untowardness of those with whom they have to do rather then to the strictness of that profession to which they are obliged by all the ties imaginable these can urge the severity and Letter of a Law though it be for Uniformity strain it contrary to its meaning against any that will not comply with them in their luke-warmness that so they may have the less disturbance in the promotion and strengthning of schism and sedition This is their keeping wind-ward of the Law It is but their moderation to deviate from an established Rule pro hic nunc according to time and place to sute themselves to the humours of