The second and last part of Reasons for refusall of subscription to the Booke of common prayer vnder the hands of certaine ministers of Deuon. and Cornwall, as they were exhibited by them to the right Reuerend Father in God William Cotton Doctor of Diuinitie, and Lord Bishop of Exceter. As also an appendix, or compendious briefe of all other exceptions taken by others against the bookes of communion, homilies, and ordination, word for word, as it came to the hands of an honorable personage. VVith an ansvvere to both at seuerall times returned them in publike conference, and in diuerse sermons vpon occasion preached in the cathedrall church of Exceter by Thomas Hutton Bachiler of Diuinitie, and fellow of S. Iohns Colledge in Oxon.

They are scandalous.

They mistake that call that scandalous, which grieueth some one or other. For then wee shall neuer haue done. Marke wee, who and how manie are offended, and vpon what ground & who hath taught them so: If the minister bee the partie that taught them, and then afterwardes he complaine that such and such in his parish will take offence, he must thanke himselfe and he shall do well to vnteach them it, but a great deale better if hee had neuer so taught them. Againe, a man thus weakelie disposed though otherwise well giuen, must hold other mens iudgement comparable to his own, they being as well affected to the gospel as himselfe, and those manie, who take offence as deeply on the o∣ther side, and let him thinke it more conuenient, for so it is in al reason, that a few should yeeld to a greater part, as namely one to a thousand, rather then a thousand to one, specially where the thing commaunded hath authoritie for it, and is not simplie euill in it owne nature, but indifferent as the Surplice, &c. For in thinges indifferent, none denie but authoritie may commaund where the word soundly taught, remoueth all other doubtes and scruples that may arise.