Two papers of proposals concerning the discipline and ceremonies of the Church of England…

And though we do most heartily acknowledge your Majesty to be Custos utriusque Tabulae, and to be supreme Governor over all Persons, and in all Things and Causes, as well Ecclesiastical as Civil, in these your Majesties Dominions; yet we humbly crave leave to beseech your Majesty to consider, Whether, as a Christian Magistrate, you be not as well obliged by that doctrine of the holy Apostle, touching things indifferent, in not occasioning offence to weak Brethren, as the Apostle himself (then one of the highest Officers in the Church of Christ) judged himself to be obliged by? and whether the great Work, wherein the Lord hath entrusted your Majesty, be not rather to provide by your sacred Authority, that the things which are necessary by Divine Command in Gods Worship, should be duly performed, than that things unnecessary should be made by humane command necessary and penal? ⟨p. 9⟩And how greatly pleasing will it be to the Lord, that your Majesties heart is so tenderly and religiously compassionate to such of his poor Servants, differing in some matters, who prefer the peace of their Consciences in God's Worship, above their own civil concernments whatsoever.

And though we do most heartily acknowledge your Majesty to be Custos utriusque Tabulae, and to be supream Governor over all Persons, and in all Things and Causes, as well Ecclesiastical as Civil, in these your Majesties Dominions; yet we humbly crave leave to beseech your Majesty to consider, Whether, as a Christian Magistrate, you be not as well obliged by that doctrine of the holy Apostle, touching things indifferent, in not occasioning offence to weak Brethren, as the Apostle himself (then one of the highest Officers in the Church of Christ) judged himself to be obliged by? and whether the great Work, wherein the Lord hath intrusted your Majesty, be not rather to provide by your sacred Authority, that the things which are necessary by Divine Command in Gods Worship, should be duly performed, than that things unnessary should be made by humane command necessary and penal? ⟨p. 9⟩And how greatly pleasing will it be to the Lord, that your Majesties heart is so tenderly and religiously compassionate to such of his poor Servants, differing in some matters, who prefer the peace of their Consciences in God's Worship, above their own civil concernments whatsoever.