Pofitive Inftitutions Not to be compar'd with, or preferr'd before Moral Duties and Virtues, AS TO Their RANK, ORDER, EXCELLENCY, In Answer to A Treatife, call'd, The Nature, Obligation, and By JOHN CHILTON, B. D. This is a Caufe of fome Moment: It is the Caufe of Plainness LONDON: Printed for J. ROBERTS, near the Oxford-Arms H AVING perus'd your Treatife of the Comparative Value of Moral and Pofitive Duties, &c. and having the Misfortune not to agree with you in many of your Notions; to afcertain your Opinion, I have recourfe to Page 75. wherein you fay, "I have now run thro' all the fpecious Pretences I have “hitherto met with for fetting the two pofi "tive Duties, viz. of the Sacraments, below "Moral Duties; and none of them appear to ( me of any real Weight. We need not there"fore hereafter be afraid to compare, &c. In Page 67. you alfo maintain, that "The Ufe "of Sacraments may be compar'd to Moral "Duties, and in fome Cafes preferr'd before " them, &c." Page 69. You fay, "The A 2 "Sacra |