r133a cc they could" Sure theywere not much afraid of Profecutions, who could, in fo formal and publick a Manner enter into a Defign to fubvert the whole Ec- clefiaftical Eflabliihment againft the Senfe of the Legislature, often declar- ed to them After the Deprivations of thofe that were in the Church, and the Exclufion of others that could not comply with the Terms required, 'twas hardly to be expeóed, that a fingle Pu- ritan should be left in the Church, and confequently that this Subfcriptionmuff have been made, and thefe /Jttempts of fubverting the Efablithment carry'd on by Puritans, fufpended, deprived, or excluded from Preferment, fence it was impoble for one honefl Puritan to efcape the high Commifon : And yet, on the contrary, notwithstanding the Outcries Mr. Ar. has made from the Beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Reign to the Time of this Subfcription and Alfociation, no lefs than 28 Tears, we find that the Holy Difcipline, &c. was, p, 44 as Mr. N. himfelfafferts, fubfcribed by ABOVE five hundred Puritan Clergy- Men, ALL Beneficed in the Church of England ; ufeful Preacher's of unfpot- ted Lives and Characters. The Puri- tans, by this Gentleman's Account, are always Men of exceeding good Cha- K 3 raóers
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