Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…

§ 25. TO your Ninth Argument, I answer, 1. O! confine not the New Creature to those of your Opinion. Do you think none of the Old Nonconformists or Conformists, none of the Reformed Churches, and no Church on Earth for a Thousand years, had any of the New Creature? When you have affrighted People with telling them, it is heinous sin, and returning to Babylon; and also by long disuse, made a Liturgy uncouth to them, do not ascribe all their averseness to the New Creature, which is from prejudice and disuse. For my part, when God taught me first to pray, I had no averseness to a Form: When I heard it charged with sin, I began to be averse to it: When I had studied the case, I was cured of that averseness: but never reconciled to the forbidding of all other Prayer, nor to the faults of any Forms.

§ 25. TO your Ninth Argument, I answer, 1. O! confine not the New Creature to those of your Opinion. Do you think none of the Old Nonconformists or Conformists, none of the Reformed Churhes, and no Church on Earth for a Thousand years, had any of the New Creature? When you have affrighted People with telling them, it is heinous sin, and returning to Babylon; and also by long disuse, made a Liturgy uncouth to them, do not ascribe all their averseness to the New Creature, which is from prejudice and disuse. For my part, when God taught me first to pray, I had no averseness to a Form: When I heard it charg'd with sin, I began to be averse to it: When I had studied the case, I was cured of that aversness: but never reconciled to the forbidding of all other Prayer, nor to the faults of any Forms.

And who knoweth not, that Man's culpable Nature loveth Novelties, and are hardly kept in lively Affections under any thing that is very often said? A Book, or Sermon, tho never so good, affecteth us not so much after many times reading and hearing, as at the first: We must not lay this weakness on the New Creature, tho it should teach Imposers to suit the Remedy to the Disease, and give children such food as is not too displeasing to their Appetites.