Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

And if the mere deferring of judgment will produce so bad an effect, what will not the total neglect of it, or partiality in it do?

And if the meer deferring of judgment will produce so bad an effect, what will not the total neglect of it, or partiality in it do?

Fifthly, An excellent way therefore for the attainment of this excellent end, the suppression of profaneness, is the putting of the Sword of Justice into the hands of good and faithful men. I do not go about to make parties in the Nation: God forbid! it is contrary to my principles, there hath been too much of it in the Nation, and in the world, and oh that there may be no more. Oh that God would in the greatness of his goodness heal all our breaches and compose all our unbrotherly differences, and grant that we may all serve him in the beauties of holiness with one shoulder and one consent. Oh that I might see it done. In the mean time I am verily persuaded, that among every one of the different parties in the Land, who hold the head, and are sound in the vitals of Christianity, the main Fundamental points of our Religion, there are to be found persons fearing God. And if I may have leave humbly to speak my thoughts, I count it a great pity that any of them should be laid aside as Vessels in which there is no pleasure, as persons altogether useless and unfit to be trusted and employed, merely because they dissent from others of their Brethren ⟨p. 351⟩in those things which are acknowledged to be indifferent, but cannot be by them complied with, lest they should sin against God, and wound their own Consciences, so long as they are sound in the faith, set for the glory of God, and for the honour of the King, and for the public good. Why, Oh! Why may not such men be owned and encouraged, and employed in those things of which they are capable? Are they fit for nothing because there is something that they cannot do? I know and all men must yield it, that there have been and will be as well as are, diversity of Judgments, and by consequence of practice. No man hath his Judgment, Faith and Reason at his Command, and it is as possible to make all men of a Stature as of a mind. But I must and do humbly submit this to our Superiors, withal leaving particular persons to their several Sentiments, and to walk accordingly to that light which they have received, and begging of God the hastening of that day prophesied of in