[ 277 ] Opinion with the Abbot, tbat hy leaping (as he calls it) out Qf Peter's Ship, we hazard our [elves to be ottJerwhelm'd and drow1z'd in the Wate1rs of Schifm, Se'f1s andVivijions. It was their com- vit!o Strype. mOll Accufation of the Proteftants, that p. 112. they were inconfiflent with themfelves, and Lovers of Novelt)!. It was therefore prudent to give fitch malicious Ad- 'lJerfaries as little Advantage as poffible. 'Tis certain, indeed, that a 1zew Truth is preferable to an old Error: But from hence it doth by no means follow, that a new 'Drefs was more advifable than one the People were accuftom'd to, at a Junf1ure when, it was paft Difpute, defigning Men would have improved the0d.Sum ofa AI ' h D'l" d f h Speech i!l the teratlOn to t e lla vantage 0 t.e Houfe of Proteflant Religion, as well as the Go- Commons. vernment; there was HazardJ as was obferved before, of driving the People by Thoufands to become Atheifls or p ar~/ls. It was therefore an Act of TfliJdom to fix upon King Edward's Plan, which had been before received; and to adhere to that, when there was nothing material objected to it. Befides, the Uncertainty of the Puritan 'Demands made it advifable, for the Government, to fufpend an Affair of fo much Importance as changing the efiablifh'd Form of Worihip, till the! T 3 who.
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