A second admonition to the parliament

They say they are desirous to be said to be in prison / &¹ that they profit by it / they would not then keep themselves out of the way / nor when they are in / be such suitors to come torch / nor abide to be stifled and choked with the stench of the prison / but that is an old shift and cunning of he adversary to say so. No, no / God his cause is the matter. You pretend a reformation / and follow not the word of God / nor will be led by that. The §30sum of all therefore is this / that either you of the Parliament must •ake order to have all reformed according to the word of God / whereof already you have heard a part / and sh•ll hear briefly the rest by God his grace / or else they to bring your reformation to the trial of the word of God / and to overthrow by the same all that we say / and all that the other of the ••st reformed churches do use. Well they may confer and ⟨image 24⟩yield / for never shall they overthrow the truth which we utter / and which the reformed churches do practise / nor shall they be able to maintain their own doings / but by cruelty / & wl, at success that hath ever had / judge by y• scriptures and by the papists experience. For this order of choosing of ministers for their conferences and equality therefore / you shall prove none to be so good as this / which I have mentioned / nor disprove §10/ but that this ought to be in a reformed church. Shall I examine their other orders? y• were infinite / but yet for the book of common prayer / which of all other must not be touched / ²because they have gotten the state so to bear it out / Even for the very states sake / for the princes sake / for the churches sake / and for conscience sake / he hath but a bad conscience that in this time will hold his peace / and not speak it for fear of trouble / knowing y• there are such intolerable abuses in it / as it is plain there are. First I say / that if it were praying / & that there were never an ill word / nor sentence in all the prayers yet to appoint it to be used / or so to use it as Papists did their matins and evensong /