C 278 J who defired the Change hadfixedupon their Alterations. At fart, their De- mands Teemed to have been very few, till, by the Connivance of the Govern- ment, they had engaged great Part of the ignorant Populace, and forne Per- fons of Confequence, on their Side. Fluffi'd with this Succefs, they publick- ly inveigh againft thofe very Perfons whole Indulgence, by allowing them confzderable Stations in the Church, had given them an Opportunity thus to chew their unquiet Ji pofition. So far were they from being abridgedof their Liber- ty, that they really grew giddywith it. Instead of removing the Cap and the Surplice, their frjl Complaint, they were for (obverting the whole Gonflitu- tion, and introducing a Scheme entirely new in every Part, more rigid Do- trine, apopular Jifcipline, and an un- deterrnin'd Form of Woríhip. The 'Differences being (o great, 'twas im- poiigble to fatisfy them, without an en- tire Change : And therefore, as nothing but the total Subveyfon of KingEd- ward's Reformation, and the intro- duEtion of the GenevaPlatform, would content them, it would have been fiery imprudent, to haveawaken'dother De- mands, or di/Obliged other Perfonsby an Zafelefs Attempt to fatisfy the Puritans, with
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