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For our part, 1. We never changed our Head, our Lord, our Faith, or one Article of our Faith: if malice it self be able to charge us with changing the smallest Article of our Faith, let them say their worst: we change not our Rule, the holy Scriptures, nor one clause or sentence of it, but endeavour the preservation of the same, which at the first we received. In our contests with the Papists, our great offence is at their mutation from the ancient Rule and way; we contend but for the faith once delivered to the Saints: the old way with us is the good way: we abhor a Religion that is new sprung up, or is less then one thousand five hundred and fifty years standing at least. If we ⟨p. 111⟩change in any thing, it is but by repenting of our former changeableness while our Nation was Popish; having then changed from the Apostolic simplicity, we change from that sinful change, and return to the ancient way again. And if we have made any further changes since our first change at the Reformation, it is but a perfecting the change to Antiquity, and Apostolic simplicity which we then begun. Rome was not built in a day, and is not pulled down in a day. The work of Reformation is but one change, though it be not done all at one time. If we find some spots of Romish dirt upon us, that escaped us at our first washing, it is no dangerous mutability yet to wash it off. If a man converted by saving grace be not perfectly rid of all his former sin the first day of his Conversion, should he be reproached as mutable for striving against it all his life after, and casting it off by degrees as he is able? If a man did but recover by degrees from the relics of his disease, they will not therefore reproach him as mutable? If he sweep the dust or dirt out of his house every day, they will not say, He is mutable and knows not where to rest. These men might as well reproach us as mutable, because we rise in the morning and do not still lie in bed; or because we go to bed at night, and do not stay up still.

For our part, 1. We never changed our Head, our Lord, our Faith, or one Article of our Faith: if malice it self be able to charge us with changing the smallest Article of our Faith, let them say their worst: we change not our Rule, the holy Scriptures, nor one clause or sentence of it, but endeavour the preservation of the same, which at the first we received. In our contests with the Papists, our great offence is at their mutation from the antient Rule and way; we contend but for the faith once delivered to the Saints: the old way with us is the good way: we abhor a Religion that is new sprung up, or is less then one thousand five hundred and fifty years standing at least. If we