12. I therefore take it to be my duty, as a private Hearer, 1. When I am where there is a tolerable Minister, and no other Church but the Parochial, to join in Worship and Communion with them constantly. 2. As a Minister on whom the Conditions in the Laws are put, to refuse some of those Conditions. 3. As an Hearer where the Minister is utterly intolerable, to do nothing which seemeth an owning him as a Minister. 4. In a place where the Parochial Ministry is the best, but a private Minister and Church is peaceable and sound, I will go ordinarily to the Parish-Church, but sometime to the weaker, if my forbearance would seem a disowning of their Communion; yea, tho it were to one that is against Infant-Baptism by mistake. 5. In a place where the privater Minister and Worship is most spiritual, powerful and profitable, I would go ordinarily thither, if I may: But sometimes to a tolerable Parish-Minister and Communion, in case my not going seem to signify that I separate from their Communion, as utterly unlawful. And if I be a Preacher in a privater Church, I will sometimes get another to supply my place, and go to the Parish-Church, if else my forbearance would seem to signify that I judg it unlawful. 6. I therefore take the same thing here to be lawful to one, and a fault in another, and a duty to another. Those that have far better Helps and Communion (all things considered), should not ordinarily prefer worse: And when the case differs not much, the Will of a Parent, an Husband, a Master or a Magistrate, should sway much: And where it is a duty to noted persons to go to the Parish-Church sometime, because else it will signify that they think it unlawful, an hundred Children, Servants, Wives, poor people, who are not noted or mist, and their absence is no scandal, are not bound to go at all, while they have much better Helps and Communion elsewhere.
12. I therefore take it to be my duty, as a private Hearer, 1. When I am where there is a tolerable Minister, and no other Church but the Parochial, to joyn in Worship and Communion with them constantly. 2. As a Minister on whom the Conditions in the Laws are put, to refuse some of those Conditions. 3. As an Hearer where the Minister is utterly intolerable, to do nothing which seemeth an owning him as a Minister. 4. In a place where the Parochial Ministry is the best, but a private Minister and Church is peaceable and sound, I will go ordinarily to the Parish-Church, but sometime to the weaker, if my forbearance would seem a disowning of their Communion; yea, tho it were to one that is against Infant-Baptism by mistake. 5. In a place where the privater Minister and Worship is most spiritual, powerful and profitable, I would go ordinarily thither, if I may: But sometimes to a tolerable Parish-Minister and Communion, in case my not going seem to signifie that I separate from their Communion, as utterly unlawful. And if I be a Preacher in a privater Church, I will sometimes get another to supply my place, and go to the Parish-Church, if else my forbearance would seem to signifie that I judg it unlawful. 6. I therefore take the same thing here to be lawful to one, and a fault in another, and a duty to another. Those that have far better Helps and Communion (all things considered), should not ordinarily prefer worse: And when the case differs not much, the Will of a Parent, an Husband, a Master or a Magistrate, should sway much: And where it is a duty to noted persons to go to the Parish-Church sometime, because else it will signifie that they think it unlawful, an hundred Children, Servants, Wives, poor people, who are not noted or mist, and their absence is no scandal, are not bound to go at all, while they have much better Helps and Communion elsewhere.
