An answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation being a letter written out of…An ansvver to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation being a letter written out of…

The course which is de facto taken in this distress for their relief is that which the reverend Author bends himself against in this Sermon. And there are two sorts of Persons concerned in it. The People; who, rather than return to the state of Paganism, implore the help of these unemployed Ministers, desiring them to perform the duty of Christian Ministers towards them. And the Ministers, who rather than they should cease to be Christians, or themselves always cease from the Work of Ministers, comply with their desires; and, as they can, allow them their desired help.

The course which is de facto taken in this distress for their relief is that which the reverend Author bends himself against in this Sermon. And there are two sorts of Persons concern'd in it. The People; who, rather than return to the state of Paganism, implore the help of these unimploy'd Ministers, desiring them to perform the duty of Christian Ministers towards them. And the Ministers, who rather than they should cease to be Christians, or themselves alwaies cease from the Work of Ministers, comply with their desires; and, as they can, allow them their desired help.

This Author doth more directly and professedly speak to the case of the People; To that of the Ministers, only by way of Oblique reflection.

You and I, who (among the former) do often partake in the Worship and Ordinances of God, in the separate Assemblies (though we are not so squeamish as to balk the Public, nor so unjust and ungrateful, as not to thank God for the excellent advantages that are sometimes to be met with there) are both concerned, and led by the Doctors discourse, to consider what is said as to this case of ours. Which yet I would have us consider not so appropriately, as to exclude them our very compassionate consideration, that are more pinched and confined to narrower limits, by their own scruples, than we are; and whose Number you cannot but apprehend to be so great, as to call for a very large compassion in considering their case.