The propositions to which he was not required to assent were these; that the Church has power to regulate ceremonies; that the doctrines set forth in the Book of Homilies are sound; and that there is nothing superstitious and idolatrous in the ordination service.

If he declared himself a Baptist, he was also excused from affirming that the baptism of infants is a laudable practice.

But, unless his conscience suffered him to subscribe thirty-four of the thirty-nine articles, and the greater part of two other articles, he could not preach without incurring all the punishments which the Cavaliers, in the day of their power and their vengeance, had devised for the tormenting and ruining of schismatical teachers.
The situation of the Quaker differed from that of other dissenters, and differed for the worse.

The Presbyterian, the Independent, and the Baptist had no scruple about the Oath of Supremacy.

But the Quaker refused to take it, not because he objected to the proposition that foreign sovereigns and prelates have no jurisdiction in England, but because his conscience would not suffer him to swear to any proposition whatever.