The simple truth is, the world has been suffered to give laws to the church; whereas the church should have given laws to the world. And the worst of all is, there is a general concurrence in this usurpation. "It is customary," is the universal plea. "We shall be deemed singular, if we do not thus or so." This is enough to pacify the conscience, and thus the tide of extravagance flows on, few raising the question of good old Bunyan, "Why follow the apish fashions of the world? Hath the God of wisdom set them on foot among us? or is it because the devil and wicked men, the inventors of these vain toys, have outwitted the law of God?"

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