An humble apology for non-conformists with modest and serious reflections on the Friendly debate…

Answ. There is no Gesture or Ceremony prescribed in the singing of Psalms, and yet People generally are bare and reverend in that exercise.

The late Canons in 1640. leave Bowing towards the East of Altar indifferent; and would not have those that do it, to judge those that do it not; nor those that do it not, to judge those that do it. Now what greater inconvenience would follow, if the same moderation and liberty to practise differently, were used as to the Cross, Surplice, and Kneeling at the Sacrament of the Lords Supper?

If there must be absolute and universal Uniformity in the Worship of God amongst the Worshippers, then all must alike have their Faces one way, must wear all Garments of the same fashion and colour. In the late Times, when the Liturgy and Ceremonies were disused, there were not a quarter of those private Meetings that have been since. The number of them that separated from the Public Worship, were very small in comparison; I suppose not ten to an hundred. The Author of the Debate, I guess, ⟨p. 128⟩and hundreds, if not thousands, of Conformists, did not hold themselves bound, notwithstanding the Laws for Liturgy and Ceremonies, to absent themselves from the then Public Worship, and assemble privately, that they might uphold Uniformity in Forms of Prayer, Rites and Ceremonies: Whence we may reasonably conclude, That they thought Gods Public Worship might be carried on without Uniformity in these things: And again, That the omission of things required by Law, is not judged so great a sin as is by them pretended.

If there must be absolute and universal Uniformity in the Worship of God amonst the Worshippers, then all must alike have their Faces one way, must wear all Garments of the same fashion and colour. In the late Times, when the Liturgy and Ceremonies were disused, there were not a quarter of those private Meetings that have been since. The number of them that separated from the Publick Worship, were very small in comparison; I suppose not ten to an hundred. The Author of the Debate, I guess,