WHereas they pretend against all mens Forms, and are against Gods Forms of administring water-Baptism, and a Bread and Wine-Sup∣per; yet they take up a Form of keeping on the Hat, a Form of words, Thou and Thee, &c. All this R. F. passeth over, as having said enough (to the latter at least) in a Pamphlet of a sheet that he entituleth, The pure language of the Spirit of truth; where also he defendeth nakedness, or some mens going naked in these times, as a figure and sign of their nakedness who are naked from God, and clothed with filthy garments; all this upon supposition, if the Lord bid them go naked: But doth not his fellow W. Dewsbery * 1.1 tell him, the Scripture saith, Let your adorn∣ing be with modest apparel: and till R. F. can prove that God sends any in these days, as he did Isaiah to go bare∣foot, and naked, he must contradict Scripture and his Fellow, and give us leave to challenge them of affected forms, and habits, placing Religion where there is none, besides their mistake of the Lords meaning in Isaiah 20. 2. about the Prophets going naked and bare-foot (at Gods command)* 1.2 which was not stark naked, for then it would not have been added bare-foot, but onely his upper garment was to be put off, with his shooes, and he was to go in some disguised ma∣ner, as Acts 19. 16. the word naked is used.
As for the forms of Thou and Thee;
1. Where they not spoken out of affectation, and in con∣tempt of Magistracy and Order, and from a Levelling spirit, the expressions are proper enough: but if they stick to these terms as proper, they are as loose at other times in their Solecisms, incongruities, and improprieties; And R. F. in this is Self-contradictious; for while he would have Thou