38+ Mr. N E A L'S IF Vol. of t 11e may devour the biggeff. Let them be forty, that being called to affemble about reforming the Church, they fell to progging and folliciting (tho' they had renounced the Name of Priefts) for a new fettling their Tithes and Oblations, and double lined themfelves with Spiritual Places of Commodity, beyond the pofiible difcharge of their Duty. Let them affemble in Confiftory, with their Eiders and Deacons, to the preferving. ` of Church-Difcipline each in his feveral Charge, ` and not a pack of Clergymen by themfeves to ` belly-chear in their prefumptuous Sion; or to pro- ' moteDefigns, to abufe and gull the Pimple Lai- ' ty, to flir up Tumults as the Prelates did before them, for the maintenance of their Pride and Avarice.' Their Ignorance is fufficiently expofed by Mr, 1hitlocke, a Friend of their own,who in his Memoirs does relate ; That divers Members of both ' Houfes, were Members of this 4ffentbly ; and had the fame liberty with the Divines, to fit and de- bate, and give their Votes in any matter, which ` was in confideration amongf them : In which De- ' bates, Mr. Seiden fpeaks admirably, and confu- ' ted divers of them in their own Learning. And fometimes when they had cited a Text of Scrip- ' ture to prove their Affertion,'he would tell them, ' Perhaps inyour little Pocket-Bibles withgilt Leaves, (which they would often pull out and read) she Tranflation may be thus, but the Greek or the He- ' brewfignifies thus and thus: and fo would total] v fi- lence them.' * Archbifhop Laud gives this Opi- nion of them : ' A great, if not the greater part ' of them were Browns, or Independents, or New- ' England Minifters, if not worfe; or at heft, re- ' fraáory Perfons to the Dotrine or Difcipline, or BiihopKennet's Compleat Hiftory, Vol. III. p. 135. Id. I b. both,
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