Dr. Hammond. sect. 16.
Now this being thus far explained, it is time to close with Mr: J. and mind him, what he cannot but know, that the decency which I said, implyed custome, is cer∣tainly another thing from natural decency, and hath place onely in those things, the o∣mitting of which doth not necessarily inferre indecency. That omission which necessarily infers indecency, infers it in all that ever did it, or shall omit it: We know in Lo∣gick that no proposition is necessary, which is not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, true in the whole species of all, and every one, and I leave it to his judgement, whether he think the Dr. and his party (i. e. Prelatists, I suppose) doe conceive, that Adam, (whether in, or out of Paradise) Noah in, or out of the Ark, &c. were obliged to pray in Surplices under pain of indecency? And so (in his other instance) that John Baptist, that Christ, or (because the Text saith that he baptised not, but his Disciples) that those Disciples, euen before the death of Christ, might not baptise any without the sign of the Crosse, but under the same penalty?