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The validity of which plea your Honours are best able to judge; and therefore we leave it at your Barre: Yet these two things w•• know, first that this forme viz. of Liturgie, was never established to be so punctually observed, so rigorously pressed to the casting out of all that scruple it, or any thing in it.
1. If former Liturgies were never established to be so punctually ob∣served, why is there such pressing now for establishment of Formes, now
to be observed in Worship and Discipline? seeing the former Divines walkt as they thought by as true a light then, as the Divines of this age do now?
2. If Synods did not formerly establish things for such punctuall obser∣vations, why are there any penalties, fines, imprisonments called for now, upon non-conformity to things established by them?
3. Why are the formes composed now so rigorously pressed, Vnifor∣mity so urged, when such practices and designes were condemned but a few yeers since? and they who urge it now, would scarce then seem to be∣leeve it to be the mind of former Synods and Parliaments?
4. If things were not to be rigorously pressed then to the casting out of any that scruple, why now?
See the same Smect. sect. 2.