IT is but that you shall every day say the Morning and Evening Service, not being lett by Sickness, or other urgent Cause.] And what have you against this?

I think when the Book was made, to help the ignorant Vulgar out of Popery, every day to use the Common-Prayer was a very good help to them. But the Case is much altered, and People now have more suitable Helps; and Ministers have so much other Work to do in their Studies, and with their Neigh∣bours every day, and some Prayers to use more suitable to their Families and Closets, that it must needs be a sinful Impediment against other Duties, to say Common-Prayer twice a day. If they were commanded to Preach twice a day, every day in the year, it would cause a sinful Omission of other Duties, how good soever Preaching be in it self.

But then you have urgent Cause of forbearance.

We are not for abusive dallying with Covenants about Sacred things: It is evident by the instance of Sickness, that the Authors of the Imposition, meant only extraordinary Causes as ur∣gent, and not that we should take our ordinary Work for such an urgent Cause. As if a Man that is bound to spend most of the day in his Shop should Covenant to go Thirty Miles every day, if he be not lett by urgent Cause.

But you see that almost no Conformists do thus: therefore it's cer∣tain that they do not so understand it.

That's a warning to take heed of promising that which we see so many that promised it not perform; They are our Monitors to take heed of such a playing with Sacred Covenants, and de∣ceiving the Law, instead of obeying it.