The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…

M. 1. If the whole Church of England here also can speak no more intelligibly, than by [no other Forms] to mean only [till the Bishop prescribe it, and except your own daily Form in the Pulpit] I would they would leave us to God's own Laws, and not take on them to be necessary interpreters of its great difficulties. If such men forbear that expounding, which they forbid others till they will do it better, the loss will be the less; Scripture speaketh plainlier than this. 2. But who giveth this exposition? To expound the Law by a common obligatory Exposition, is proper to the Lawmakers: He that maketh the words maketh not a Law if he make not the sense; Judges make not the sense but decide particular Cases by it as they understand it. The Canons are made by the Convocation, which he that denieth to be the Representative Church of England, is Excommunicate. The Pulpit Preachers, nor the particular Bishops are not the Convocation, and therefore have not power to expound their Canons, by any Common obligatory exposition; much less contrary to the express words. Which way most of the Clergy went under Bishop Parker, Grindal and Abbot, is well known: And yet now they are so far from being taken for the Expositors of the Churches sense, that they are openly scorned, as popular fautorer of Puritans, and those of their mind called Grindalizers. ⟨p. 44⟩II. But it is the second, that is the Trojan horse whose name is Legion, I mean that hath many more evils in the belly of it, viz. that we must profess that the three Books, Articles, Liturgy and Ordination are so utterly faultless that there is nothing in them Contrary to the word of God, and that we Assent and Consent to all contained and prescribed in and by them.

M. 1. If the whole Church of England here also can speak no more intelligibly, than by [no other Forms] to mean only [till the Bishop prescribe it, and except your own daily Form in the Pulpit] I would they would leave us to God's own Laws, and not take on them to be necessary interpreters of its great difficulties. If such men forbear that expounding, which they forbid others till they will do it better, the loss will be the less; Scripture speaketh plainlier than this. 2. But who giveth this exposition? To expound the Law by a common obligatory Exposition, is proper to the Lawmakers: He that maketh the words maketh not a Law if he make not the sense; Judges make not the sense but decide particular Cases by it as they understand it. The Canons are made by the Convocation, which he that denyeth to be the Representative Church of England, is Excommunicate. The Pulpit Preachers, nor the particular Bishops are not the Convocation, and therefore have not power to expound their Canons, by any Common obligatory exposition; much less contrary to the express words. Which way most of the Clergy went under Bishop Parker, Grindal and Abbot, is well known: And yet now they are so far from being taken for the Expositors of the Churches sense, that they are openly scorned, as popular fautorer of Puritans, and those of their mind called Grindalizers.