We maruell that they coulde espie in the laste synode, that a gray Amyse, whiche is but a gar∣ment of dignitie, should be a garment (as they say) defyled with superstition, and yet that copes, caps, surplesses, tippets, and suche lyke baggage, the preaching signes of Popishe priesthoode, the Popes creatures, kepte in the same forme to this ende, to bring dignitie and reuerence to the mi∣nisters and sacraments, should be reteyned still, and not abolished.
It is well that you seeme to iustifye the gray Amyse, bycause the Bishops haue disalowed of it in theyr Synode, Truly this is your consci∣ence and religion, to be always ad oppositum, & to disalow that, which law & authoritie alloweth, and allow that, which they disalow. The