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rd guise, and are otVimes sosubsUl VIIJ iREtAJfDS LVU^ COKPITION. 1211 m our Protf^stant churches^ especially in llioac wbo liave |)ri-.«ttrvi^l muMLorthi^. Jomiaiul circumstance, uf the pomp aud ccrrmuny aiid furniture, of tbe Latin Church, instead of reaching back to the prio}itivc church. And ibis a^lQ* i^ only to be prevented by the continual dcniocistration of the emptiness of all forms, and hoUowncss of all un- spiritnal acts of worship, the danger of hypo- crifiies, and the continual course of idolatry by every avenue ; yea, wo should tracnple upon the very altar, if it is made an idol of, and raze the temple to the ground^ and empty ourselves, as Pttui did, and »bcw the wcakne«» of the written word itself, and the unprofitableness of all creeds, prayerJi, and cotifvKsionf^, when they becnnie idoli to the people. Instead of which, I think we are all gone mad with vanity, crying up our standards or no standards, our forms or no forniic, our sects and peculiar diffcrcncea:— disputes which, while others of my pTofcitaion think foding away. 1 for c^nc bclit^vb to be tiicre;vsing amongst the sects which compose the vjAible Protestant Church; thoui^h there be u few, a very few, as it were one of a family and two of a tribe, wbo have their spiritual senses exercised to discern the brcthreo of the true spintual church, by whatever name named, and in whatever country fmind. Foniftuuich then as the «enfu- ih ever awake to take occasion by all mcatks to oppress the .Spirit, and useth even the natural understanding, and natural fcclin? to maintain the ascendency, yea, and maketh an armou ry of the very word of God ^ and thin amongst PrDtcatant&, who had their origin, and. have chosen it ait their particular province in the church universal, to protest against the 4 I 2 k 1212 IKtLAXDS £VtL COKDITiOV. f. idolatty which bad crept iDto the Komisb Church; how cw it otherwise be, but that ii that church, which bath b; our ProtestatioD only the more forced back upon ihe t^troDgholdi of its sup<.-nitiUDn in the st-nstr, and did, in Ihl Council of Trent, sanctify and perpetuate wh: beforewasregardedftfiftbufic; there fihouldprevai amon^t the ignorant people the most deba»iii| tdolatries, and idolatriea of a more refined amoQ^t the more enlightened* and with alnii all. both prie>l& nnd |>eople, capitiil ^nd fund;!- mental errorfi upon the nature uf that spiritin worship, and the spring of that vrillio; obedici which God rcqoireth of man. Nor U it to doubted by any one who, in Ireland, or in Franci or in Spain, hat