XXIV PREFACE. 



did, fora great time, maintain and bear out the irre* 

 Iigionofbishop8andprelat.es - 37 



2. Prejudices of particular men - 40 



The universities are the seat or the continent 

 of this disease, from whence it is derived into the 

 realm 41 



3. Detestation of former heresy 42 



This manner of apprehension doth in some degree 

 possess many in our times. They think it the true 

 touchstone to try what is good and evil, by measuring 

 what is more or less opposite to the institutions of 

 the church of Rome, be it ceremony, be it policy, or 

 government ; yea, be it other institutions of greater 

 weight, that is ever most perfect which is removed 

 most degrees from that Church ; and that is ever 

 polluted and blemished, which participated! in any 

 appearance with it. This is a subtile and dangerous 

 conceit for men to entertain ; apt to delude themselves, 

 more apt to delude the people, and most apt of all to 

 calumniate their adversaries 43 



4. Imitation of Foreign Churches - 44 

 2. IMPROPER EXTENSION OF CONTROVERSY. 



1. Conduct of Reformers - 47 



2. Conduct of Anti-reformers 48 



Again, to my lords the bishops I say, that it 

 is hard for them to avoid blame, in the opinion 

 of an indifferent person, in standing so precisely 

 upon altering nothing : &quot; leges, novis legibus 

 non recreate, acescunt;&quot; laws, not refreshed 

 with new laws, wax sour. &quot; Qui mala non per- 

 mutat, in bonis non perseverat :&quot; without change 

 of ill, a man cannot continue the good. To 

 take away many abuse, supplanteth not good 

 orders, but establisheth them. &quot; Morosa moris 

 retentio, res turbulenta est, ceque ac novitas;&quot; 

 contentious retaining of customs is a turbulent 

 thing, as well as innovation. A good husband 



