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When they should solace their souls at the Lords Supper, or other Communion of the Church, he will be raising scruples about the fitness of every one that they are to Join with, and whether it be lawful to Join with such an Ignorant man, or such a wicked man; or whether it be a true Church, or rightly gathered, or governed, or the Minister a true Minister, and twenty the like. When they should Join with the Church in the singing of Gods Praises, he will move one to scruple singing Davids Psalms, another to scruple singing among the ungodly, another singing Psalms that agree not to every mans condition; another, because our Translation is bad, or our Meter defective, and we might have better […] should spend the Lords Day in ⟨p. 373⟩Gods Spiritual Worship, he causeth one to scruple whether the Lords Day be of Divine Institution: another he drives into the other extreme, to scruple almost every thing that is not worship; Whether they may provide their meat on that day (when•yet it is a solemn day of thanksgiving, and they scruple not much more on other thanksgiving days) or whether they may so much as move a stick out of their way; Others he moves to trouble themselves with scruples, at what hour the day begins and ends, and the like: Whereas if they, 1. Understood that worldly rest is commanded but as a help to spiritual Worship. 2. And that they must employ as much of that day in Gods work as they do of other days in their Callings, and rest in the night as at other times, and that God looks to Time for the Works sake, and not at the Work for the Time sake; this would cast out most of their scruples. The like course Satan takes with Christians in Reading, Praying in secret, or in their families, Teaching their families, Reproving Sinners, Teaching the Ignorant, Meditation, and all other duties, too long to mention the particular scruples which he thrusts into mens heads, much more to Resolve them, which would require a large Volume alone.

When they should solace their souls at the Lords Supper, or other Communion of the Church, he will be raising scruples about the fitness of every one that they are to Joyn with, and whether it be lawful to Joyn with such an Ignorant man, or such a wicked man; or whether it be a true Church, or rightly gathered, or governed, or the Minister a true Minister, and twenty the like. When they should Joyn with the Church in the singing of Gods Praises, he will move one to scruple singing Davids Psalms, another to scruple singing among the ungodly, another singing Psalms that agree not to every mans condition; another, because our Translation is bad, or our Meeter defective, and we might have better should spend the Lords Day in