Thus
iniquity joineth itself with the greatest and most substantial
truths of the gospel; and it is hard to receive any good opinion
whatever, but iniquity will join itself thereto.
A LATITUDINARIAN.
What you say about doubtful opinions, alterable modes, rites, and
circumstances in religion, I know none so wedded thereto as
yourselves, For you thus argue: "Whatsoever of such are commended by
the custom of the place we live in, or commanded by superiors, or
made by any circumstance convenient to be done, our Christian
liberty consists in this-that we have leave to do them."
So that, do but call them things indifferent, things that are the
customs of the place we live in, or made by any circumstance
convenient, and a man may not doubt but he hath leave to do them,
let him live at Rome or Constantinople, or amidst the greatest
corruption of worship and government. There are therefore,
doubtless, a third sort of fundamentals, by which you can wrestle
with conviction of conscience, and stifle it-by which you can suit
yourself for every fashion, mode, and way of religion. Here you may
hop from Presbyterianism to a prelatical mode; and if time and
chance should serve you, backwards and forwards again: yea, here you
can make use of several consciences, one for this way now, another
for that anon; now putting out the light of this by a sophistical,
delusive argument.
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