5. I say, perhaps he cannot know. For who can tell how far invincible ignorance may extend? Or (that comes to the same thing) invincible prejudice: which is so fixt in tender minds, that it is afterwards impossible to tear up what has taken so deep a root. And who can say, unless he knew every circumstance attending it, how far any mistake is culpable? Seeing all guilt must suppose some concurrence of the will: of which he only can judge who searcheth the heart. 6. Every wise man therefore will allow others the same liberty of thinking, which he desires they should allow him: and will no more insist on their embracing his opinions, than he would have them to insist on his embracing theirs. He bears with those who differ from him, and only asks him, with whom he desires to unite in love, that single question, _Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart_? 7. We may, secondly, observe, That here is no enquiry made, concerning _Jehonadab_’s mode of worship: altho’ it is highly probably, there was in this respect also, a very wide difference between them. For we may well believe ♦_Jehonadab_ as well as all his posterity, worshipped God at _Jerusalem_: whereas _Jehu_ did not; he had more regard to state-policy than religion. And therefore altho’ he slew the worshippers of _Baal, and destroyed_ Baal _out of_ Israel: yet _from the_ convenient _sin of_ Jeroboam, the worship of _the golden calves, he departed not_, 2 Kings x. 29. 8. But even among men of an upright heart, men who desire to _have a conscience void of offence_, it must needs be, that as long as there are various opinions, there will be various ways of worshipping God: seeing a variety of opinion necessarily implies a variety of practice. And as in all ages, men have differed in nothing more than in their opinions concerning the supreme Being, so in nothing have they more differed from each other, than in the manner of worshipping him. Had this been only in the Heathen world, it would not have been at all surprising. For we know these _by their wisdom knew not_ God; nor therefore could they know how to worship him. But is it not strange, That even in the Christian world, altho’ they all agree in the general, God _is a Spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth_: yet the particular modes of worshipping God, are almost as various as among the Heathens? 9. And how shall we chuse, among so much variety? No man can chuse for, or prescribe to another. But every one must follow the dictates of his own conscience, in simplicity and godly sincerity. He must be fully persuaded in his own mind, and then act according to the best light he has. Nor has any creature power to constrain another to walk by his own rule. God has given no right to any of the children of men, thus to lord it over the conscience of his brethren. But every man must judge for himself, as every man must give an account of himself to God.