6. Is it not called An Act for Uniformity, and imposeth all the heavy Penalties on purpose to procure Uniformity? Would they have Silenced and Ruined two thousand Ministers for Non-conformity, if Uniformity had not been thought of more worth than their Ministerial Labours? And can you think that after all this, they meant to leave it to the particular Bishops, whether there should be any Uniformity or not? You think one Bishop will say, [You are Parish Bishops, and may publicly admonish and reprove the Scandalous, and Excommunicate them Excommunication minore: You may give them the Sacrament, that conscientiously ⟨p. 117⟩scruple Kneeling; you may Baptize them that conscientiously scruple the dedicating Cross, and the English sort of God-Fathers; you may refuse to say the words of Prayer, which imply his Salvation, over the Dead who were Excommunicable, though not Excommunicated: You may understand the Article which professeth the certainty of Baptized Infants salvation, of those only that are the Children of faithful Parents, or Pro-parents; you may say you Assent to all in the Book, and mean not all but some part, and that not as true, but as usable: You may profess Consent to use it all, and yet not mean to use the Calendar, or Rubrics, or to Administer the Sacraments otherwise than as aforesaid: You may Say, or Subscribe, or Swear, that it is, on any pretence whatsoever, unlawful to take Arms against any Commissioned by the King, and mean only such as are lawfully Commissioned. You may subscribe that no one in England that sware it, is bound by the solemn Vow and Oath, to endeavour any alteration of Government in Church or State, and mean only that he must not endeavour it by Sedition or Rebellion.] And so on to the end.
6. Is it not called An Act for Uniformity, and imposeth all the heavy Penalties on purpose to procure Uniformity? Would they have Silenced and Ruined two thousand Ministers for Non-conformity, if Uniformity had not been thought of more worth than their Ministerial Labours? And can you think that after all this, they meant to leave it to the particular Bishops, whether there should be any Uniformity or not? You think one Bishop will say, [You are Parish Bishops, and may publickly admonish and reprove the Scandalous, and Excommunicate them Excommunicatione minore: You may give them the Sacrament, that conscienciously ⟨p. 117⟩scruple Kneeling; you may Baptize them that conscienciously scruple the dedicating Cross, and the English sort of God-Fathers; you may refuse to say the words of Prayer, which imply his Salvation, over the Dead who were Excommunicable, though not Excommunicated: You may understand the Article which professeth the certainty of Baptized Infants salvation, of those only that are the Children of faithful Parents, or Pro-parents; you may say you Assent to all in the Book, and mean not all but some part, and that not as true, but as usable: You may profess Consent to use it all, and yet not mean to use the Calendar, or Rubricks, or to Administer the Sacraments otherwise than as aforesaid: You may Say, or Subscribe, or Swear, that it is, on any pretence whatsoever, unlawful to take Arms against any Commissioned by the King, and mean only such as are lawfully Commissioned. You may subscribe that no one in England that sware it, is bound by the solemn Vow and Oath, to endeavour any alteration of Government in Church or State, and mean only that he must not endeavour it by Sedition or Rebellion.] And so on to the end.
