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gion of their con?, ?d mt? ther?ore fwa#o? dow? k?ow?g ?'ha't ?h? are made of i or like the Common ?,'?i?, of aa arnO, thq m 4 ? their ?armd, and courag? as their leaders direr, ?ithout e=er examining, or ? much as knc?ing the cau;e thq contend for. ?udibrm exprefies partly th? finfe thought thus: To an un?noavn church-di.rci?li?;e ; W engage, ?nd after un&?and. ?t is, i?aeed, the?lf fame c 0 ?th their$ that fwore t' & ?era'?. ,c I flail to this ?to&ice too beg leave to "again the words of the fore. nam'd Arch-bilho?, in "the timepage' Wheu a man,fays he, is ?ncertain "whether ?rhat he f?ears to, be true, this like?vife is "perjury; for men ought to be certain of what they "a?rt upon oath, and ?ot fwear at a ,?nture. Now, "to fly that thefe gentlemen of t:vet=e years old, ,' fwear and fubfcribe to theti d?ffcult and abfirt{} �' points? otherwife than at a venture, i? what I "think the fearIce of thefe learned impofers them- "feNes wou?d even blufh at. Nay, the very tta- "tutes themI?Nesfeem to me to �uppofethem igno- �' rant o? the? articles when the 3' fubfcribe to them, ', fince 'tis the chief end of their rutore ut inlti. �? tuant cos in rudimenth religionis, ?5? doFlrin? arti- "ctdi$, in.One& Zonal. anno ?y6z. editis. That they "may initiate and inftru& (not confirm) them in the ', rudiment, of religion and articles of faith, fit forth "? the? of London, x know