should not be given way to, yet those who encline
this way from a desire of strictness are much to be
Pitied. But on the other hand, we are not to think so
of the Ring-leaders of this Error; It hath been found
by experience that such have been more carried on
by a conceit of their Own Holiness, than any true
Love to Holiness it self; It hath been usually found
in Heady men who had a mind to make a Rupture
in te Church, that this has been the Method they
used to walke in, To cry up Holiness in themselves,
and to cry down all who differed from them, as un∣tender:
That so they might carry all with them
at last; At least to Rent and divide the Church: To
such we will say nothing, but Christs Curse, and the
Churches for Renting her bowels, will fall on Them.But unto the other we will speak something, that
is, To those who are piously Strict and really loath
at the good Service of God, because such Persons
are at it who should not be there. To those I shall say;
First, Know what it your Duty. And Secondly, What
is not your Duty in reference to Prophane Men; Oft∣times
we mistake our Duty and leap over it, to what
is not our Duty: Now your Duty in reference to pro∣phane
Men, Is not to take your hands from the Or∣dinance,
because Their hands are at it; To turn
your backs on your Duty because Prophane Men join
with you in it; It will be but a small excuse to pre∣tend
when God reckons with you, when the Lord
will say, What made you neglect such a Duty? to say.
Lord I grant it was my Duty, but I could not, because
such Men were at it: Therefore ye should know
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