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§. 9. And too many honest persons in opposition to ungodliness, are disaffected to lawful and laudable things in the worship of God merely because the Ungodly use them: When as experience telleth all the world, that they that have no Religion in sincerity, will usually join with the Religion that is uppermost; And so if good Rulers and Teachers set up that which is best, the best will be outwardly the way of the ungodly; and if we must needs be singular from them we must take the worst, and leave them the best: to their self deceit and our shame.

§. 9. And too many honest persons in opposition to ungodliness, are disaffected to lawful and laudable things in the worship of God meerly because the Ʋngodly use them: When as experience telleth all the world, that they that have no Religion in sincerity, will usually joyn with the Religion that is uppermost; And so if good Rulers and Teachers set up that which is best, the best will be outwardly the way of the ungodly; and if we must needs be singular from them we must take the worst, and leave them the best: to their self deceit and our shame.

§ 10. I have thought by this weakness of some singular people, that, if God should but let us have a King and other Rulers that were Antinomians, and against Infant Baptism, and against singing Psalms, and against the use of the Creed and Lords Prayer, and such other things, and withal were themselves of wicked lives, and would make Laws for their own way, and impose it on the people, so that the ungodly multitude did fall into this way, it would presently cure most that are now for such opinions: And though the Godly and the wicked must be greatly differenced in the Church, yet before we are aware, our secret Pride sets in with this desire of discipline, and maketh us much desire to seem eminently Good, by a more notable and conspicuous difference from the common sort of Christians than God in Scripture or reason doth allow.