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2. When a Plea for the Work of the Holy Ghost began to be revived, it produced all the enmity, hatred and contempt of, and against the Spirit of God himself, and his whole Work in the Church, which the World is now filled withal.

§ 15. That word [his whole work in the Church], is another mis-report.¹ It is not [his whole work] that is so contemned. A man may preach for Mercy to the Poor, for Obedience to Authority, for Love, &c. and he may sing Psalms of Praise, and pray for Pardon, and for Kings and Magistrates, and for daily Bread, and may profess to believe the Creed, and Scripture, &c. without the contempt which you describe. But no doubt but Malignity will take advantage of Liturgies, and of almost any thing, and so hath still done: All is not unlawful which bad men abuse: What is more turned against Christ in the world abroad, than his Two great Ordinances of Magistracy and Ministry: What more abused to strife, than the Sacrament of Love, Union and Communion? Are all these therefore unlawful?

§ 15. THat word [his whole work in the Church], is another mis-report.¹ It is not [his whole work] that is so contemned. A man may preach for Mercy to the Poor, for Obedience to Authority, for Love, &c. and he may sing Psalms of Praise, and pray for Pardon, and for Kings and Magistrates, and for daily Bread, and may profess to believe the Creed, and Scripture, &c. without the contempt which you describe. But no doubt but Malignity will take advantage of Liturgies, and of almost any thing, and so hath still done: All is not unlawful which bad men abuse: What is more turned against Christ in the world abroad, than his Two great Ordinances of Magistracy and Ministry: What more abused to strife, than the Sacrament of Love, Union and Communion? Are all these therefore unlawful?

1. 1XXVIII. Error.