159 ] Conduct of the whole Body. The peaceable few were diftinguihed from the troublejbme Majority of thefe Men, and treated in a different Manner. The Englifh Laity Mr. N. himfelf allows, p. 201. were more averfe to the Habits than the Clergy. AN hence could this Averfion arife, but from the Puritan Preachers ? Had the People been told, as theyought to have been, if the Sub- jeer was mention'd in the Pulpit, that thefe were Matters of Indifference ap- pointed by Authority ; that it did not belong to them to judge or condemn their Minifters or Brethren, efpecially for obeying Laws made to fupport the Proteftant Religion, and the Queen's In junctions made in Confequence of thofe Laws : That her Majefty had ex- prefsly declaredfire didnot mean to at- tribute any Holinefs or fpecial If7orthi -= nefs to the Garments: That the Peo- ple might be as careful of their Con- duet, and as effectually promote their own Salvation, whether their Minifler wore a Scholar's Gown, or a Geneva Cloak. Had nothing been faid upon the Subject in the Pulpit, or had fore filch Method as this been taken, and all Violence Reproach, and contempt difcouraged as finful and uncharitable, the Engle) Laity, who had no Ob- efions
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