The first Scandall, occasioned by the Non conformists, is in weakning some that are yet in the Church.

Your Actiue scandall worketh apparently both against [Pusillos] the weake; and also against [Perfectos] the stronger sort of Christians. We beginne with the weake persons; whereof some beholding your vehement op∣position against the Church, stand amazed thereat, as Vulgar men vse to do, when, looking earnestly vpon the ecclipse of the Moone, they presently dreame of some change, and alteration of the season; but whether it will be for better, or for worse, they cannot prognosticate. So these Weaklings, hearing of such differences among the Ministers of the Word, (although in matters of lesse moment) do wonder what may be the euent thereof, and thereupon become more remisse in the profession of Page  167 Religion; whilest, by your detracting from the Ordinan∣ces of the Church, many take occasion soone to negl•ct the outward worship of God; whereupon their inward zeale and deuotion soone cooleth, and in the end va∣nisheth away.