A letter, containing some reflections on His Majesties Declaration for liberty of conscience dated the fourth of April, 1687
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
1689
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A letter, containing some reflections on His Majesties Declaration for liberty of conscience dated the fourth of April, 1687
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
8 p.
s.n.,
[London :
1689]
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Attributed also to Daniel Defoe.
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A
LETTER
,
Containing
some
REFLECTIONS
On
His
MAJESTIES
DECLARATION
For
LIBERTY
of
CONSCIENCE
.
Dated
the
Fourth
of
April
,
1687.
SIR
,
I.
I
Thank
you
for
the
Favour
of
sending
me
the
late
Declaration
that
His
Majesty
has
granted
for
Liberty
of
Conscience
.
I
confess
,
I
longed
for
it
with
great
Impatience
,
and
was
surprised
to
find
it
so
different
from
the
Scotch
Pattern
;
for
I
imagined
,
that
it
was
to
be
set
to
the
second
part
of
the
same
tune
:
nor
can
I
see
why
the
Penners
of
this
have
sunk
so
much
in
their
stile
;
for
I
suppose
the
same
men
penned
both
.
I
expected
to
have
seen
the
Imperial
Language
of
Absolute
Power
,
to
which
all
the
Subjects
are
to
obey
without
reserve
;
and
of
the
cassing
,
annulling
,
the
stopping
,
and
disabling
of
Laws
set
forth
in
the
Preamble
and
body
of
this
Declaration
;
whereas
those
dreadful
words
are
not
to
be
found
here
:
for
instead
of
repealing
the
Laws
,
His
Majesty
pretends
by
this
only
to
suspend
them
;
and
tho
in
effect
this
amounts
to
a
repeal
,
yet
it
must
be
confessed
that
the
words
are
softer
.
Now
since
the
Absolute
Power
,
to
which
His
Majesty
pretends
in
Scotland
,
is
not
founded
on
such
poor
things
as
Law
;
for
that
would
look
as
if
it
were
the
gift
of
the
people
;
but
on
the
Divine
Authority
,
which
is
supposed
to
be
delegated
to
His
Majesty
,
this
may
be
as
well
claimed
in
England
as
it
was
in
Scotland
:
and
the
pretention
to
Absolute
Power
is
so
great
a
thing
,
that
since
His
Majesty
thought
fit
once
to
claim
it
,
he
is
little
beholding
to
those
that
make
him
fall
so
much
in
his
Language
;
especially
since
both
these
Declarations
have
appeared
in
our
Gazettes
;
so
that
as
we
see
what
is
done
in
Scotland
,
we
know
from
hence
what
is
in
some
peoples
hearts
,
and
what
we
may
expect
in
England
.
II.
His
Majesty
tells
his
people
,
that
the
perfect
Injoyment
of
their
Property
has
never
been
in
any
Case
invaded
by
him
since
his
coming
to
the
Crown
.
This
is
indeed
matter
of
great
Incouragement
to
all
good
Subjects
;
for
it
lets
them
see
,
that
such
Invasions
,
as
have
been
made
on
Property
,
have
been
done
without
His
Majesties
knowledge
:
so
that
no
doubt
the
continuing
to
levy
the
Customes
and
the
Additional
Excise
(
which
had
been
granted
only
during
the
late
Kings
Life
,
)
before
the
Parliament
could
meet
to
renew
the
Grant
,
was
done
without
His
Majesties
knowledge
;
the
many
Violences
committed
not
only
by
Soldiers
,
but
Officers
,
in
all
the
Parts
of
England
,
which
are
severe
Invasions
on
Property
,
have
been
all
without
His
Majesties
knowledge
;
and
since
the
first
Branch
of
Property
is
the
Right
that
a
man
has
to
his
Life
,
the
strange
Essay
of
Mahometan
Government
,
that
was
shewed
at
Taunton
;
and
the
no
less
strange
proceedings
of
the
present
Lord
Chancellour
,
in
his
Circuit
after
the
Rebellion
(
which
are
very
justly
called
His
Campagne
,
for
it
was
an
open
Act
of
Hostility
to
all
Law
)
and
for
which
and
other
Services
of
the
like
nature
,
it
is
believed
he
has
had
the
reward
of
the
Great
Seal
,
and
the
Executions
of
those
who
have
left
their
Colours
,
which
being
founded
on
no
Law
,
are
no
othet
than
so
many
Murders
;
all
these
,
I
say
,
are
as
we
are
sure
,
Invasions
on
Property
;
but
since
the
King
tells
us
,
that
no
such
Invasions
have
been
made
since
he
came
to
the
Crown
,
we
must
conclude
that
all
these
things
have
fallen
out
without
his
Privity
.
And
if
a
standing
Army
,
in
time
of
Peace
,
has
been
ever
lookt
on
by
this
Na●ion
as
an
Attempt
upon
the
whole
Property
of
the
Nation
in
gross
,
one
must
conclude
,
that
even
this
is
done
without
His
Majesties
knowledge
.
III.
His
Majesty
expresses
his
Charity
for
us
in
a
kind
wish
,
that
we
were
all
Members
of
the
Catholick
Church
;
in
return
to
which
we
offer
up
daily
our
most
earnest
prayers
for
him
,
that
he
may
become
a
Member
of
the
truly
Catholick
Church
:
for
Wishes
and
Prayers
do
no
hurt
on
no
side
:
but
His
Majesty
adds
,
that
it
has
ever
been
his
Opinion
,
that
Conscience
ought
not
to
be
constrained
,
nor
people
forced
in
matters
of
meer
Religion
.
We
are
very
happy
if
this
continues
to
be
always
his
sense
:
but
we
are
sure
in
this
he
is
no
obedient
Member
of
that
which
he
means
by
the
Catholick
Church
:
for
it
has
over
and
over
again
decreed
the
Extirpation
of
Hereticks
.
It
encourages
Princes
to
it
,
by
the
Offer
of
the
Pardon
of
their
Sins
;
it
threatens
them
to
it
,
by
denouncing
to
them
not
only
the
Judgments
of
God
,
but
that
which
is
more
sensible
,
the
loss
of
their
Dominions
:
and
it
seems
they
intend
to
make
us
know
that
part
of
their
Doctrine
even
before
we
come
to
feel
it
,
since
tho
some
of
that
Communion
would
take
away
the
Horror
which
the
Fourth
Council
of
the
Lateran
gives
us
,
in
which
these
things
were
decreed
,
by
denying
it
to
be
a
General
Council
,
and
rejecting
the
Authority
of
those
Canons
,
yet
the
most
learned
of
all
the
Apostates
that
has
fallen
to
them
from
our
Church
,
has
so
lately
given
up
this
Plea
,
and
has
so
formally
acknowledged
the
Authority
of
that
Council
,
and
of
its
Canons
,
that
it
seems
they
think
they
are
bound
to
this
piece
of
fair
dealing
,
of
warning
us
before
hand
of
our
Danger
.
It
is
true
Bellarmin
sayes
,
The
Church
does
not
always
execute
her
Power
of
deposing
Heretical
Princes
,
tho
she
always
retains
it
:
one
reason
that
he
assigns
,
is
,
because
she
is
not
at
all
times
able
to
put
it
in
execution
:
so
the
same
reason
may
perhaps
make
it
appear
unadviseable
to
extirpate
Hereticks
,
because
that
at
present
it
cannot
be
done
;
but
the
Right
remains
entire
;
and
is
put
in
execution
in
such
an
unrelenting
manner
in
all
places
where
that
Religion
prevails
,
that
it
has
a
very
ill
Grace
,
to
see
any
Member
of
that
Church
speak
in
this
strain
:
and
when
neither
the
Policy
of
France
,
nor
the
Greatness
of
their
Monarch
,
nor
yet
the
Interests
of
the
Emperour
joyned
to
the
Gentleness
of
his
own
temper
,
could
withstand
these
Bloody
Councils
,
that
are
indeed
parts
of
that
Religion
,
we
can
see
no
reason
to
induce
us
to
believe
,
that
a
Toleration
of
Religion
is
proposed
with
any
other
design
but
either
to
divide
us
,
or
to
lay
us
asleep
,
till
it
is
time
to
give
the
Alarm
for
destroying
us
.
IV.
If
all
the
Endeavours
,
that
have
been
used
in
the
last
four
Reigns
,
for
bringing
the
Subjects
of
this
Kingdom
to
a
Unity
in
Religion
have
been
ineffectual
,
as
His
Maj.
says
;
we
know
to
whom
we
owe
both
the
first
beginnings
and
the
progress
of
the
Divisions
among
our selves
;
the
Gentleness
of
Q.
Elisabeth's
Government
,
and
the
numbers
of
those
that
adhered
to
the
Church
of
Rome
,
made
it
scarce
possible
to
put
an
end
to
that
Party
during
her
Reign
,
which
has
been
ever
since
restless
,
and
has
had
credit
enough
at
Court
during
the
three
last
Reigns
,
not
only
to
support
it self
,
but
to
distract
us
,
and
to
divert
us
from
apprehending
the
danger
of
being
swallowed
up
by
them
,
by
fomenting
our
own
Differences
,
and
by
setting
on
either
a
Toleration
,
or
a
Persecution
,
as
it
has
hapned
to
serve
their
Interests
.
It
is
not
so
very
long
since
,
that
nothing
was
to
be
heard
at
Court
but
the
supporting
the
Church
of
England
,
and
the
Extirpating
all
the
Nonconformists
:
and
it
were
easy
to
name
the
persons
,
if
it
were
decent
,
that
had
this
ever
in
their
Mouths
;
but
now
all
is
turned
round
again
,
the
Church
of
England
is
in
Disgrace
;
and
now
the
Encouragment
of
Trade
,
the
Quiet
of
the
Nation
,
and
the
Freedom
of
Conscience
are
again
in
Vogue
,
that
were
such
odious
things
but
a
few
years
ago
,
that
the
very
mentioning
them
was
enough
to
load
any
man
with
Suspitions
as
backward
in
the
King's
Service
,
while
such
Methods
are
used
,
and
the
Government
is
as
in
an
Ague
,
divided
between
hot
and
cold
fits
,
no
wonder
if
Laws
so
unsteadily
executed
have
failed
of
their
effect
.
V.
There
is
a
good
reserve
here
left
for
Severity
when
the
proper
Opportunity
to
set
it
on
presents
it self
:
for
his
Majesty
Declares
himself
only
against
the
forcing
of
men
in
matters
of
meer
Religion
:
so
that
whensoever
Religion
and
Policy
come
to
be
so
interwoven
,
that
meer
Religion
is
not
the
case
,
and
that
Publick
Safety
may
be
pretended
,
then
this
Declaration
is
to
be
no
more
claimed
:
so
that
the
fastning
any
thing
upon
the
Protestant
Religion
,
that
is
inconsistent
with
the
Publick
Peace
,
will
be
pretended
to
shew
that
they
are
not
persecuted
for
meer
Religion
.
In
France
,
when
it
was
resolved
to
extirpate
the
Protestants
,
all
the
Discourses
that
were
written
on
that
Subject
were
full
of
the
Wars
occasioned
by
those
of
the
Religion
in
the
last
Age
,
tho
as
these
were
the
happy
Occasions
of
bringing
the
House
of
Bourbon
to
the
Crown
,
they
had
been
ended
above
80.
years
ago
,
and
there
had
not
been
so
much
as
the
least
Tumult
raised
by
them
these
50.
years
past
:
so
that
the
French
,
who
have
smarted
under
this
Severity
,
could
not
be
charged
with
the
least
Infraction
of
the
Law
:
yet
Stories
of
a
hundred
years
old
were
raised
up
to
inspire
into
the
King
those
Apprehensions
of
them
,
which
have
produced
the
terrible
effects
that
are
visible
to
all
the
World.
There
is
another
Expression
in
this
Declaration
,
which
lets
us
likewise
see
with
what
Caution
the
Offers
of
Favour
are
now
worded
,
that
so
there
may
be
an
Occasion
given
when
the
Time
and
Conjuncture
shall
be
favourable
to
break
thro
them
all
:
it
is
in
these
words
,
So
that
they
take
especial
Care
that
nothing
be
preached
or
taught
amongst
them
,
which
may
any
ways
tend
to
alienate
the
Hearts
of
our
People
from
us
or
our
Government
.
This
in
it self
is
very
reasonable
,
and
could
admit
of
no
Exception
,
if
we
had
not
to
do
with
a
set
of
men
,
who
to
our
great
Misfortune
have
so
much
Credit
with
His
Majesty
,
and
who
will
be
no
sooner
lodged
in
the
Power
to
which
they
pretend
,
than
they
will
make
every
thing
that
is
preached
against
Popery
pass
for
that
which
may
in
some
manner
alienate
the
Subjects
from
the
King.
VI.
His
Majesty
makes
no
doubt
of
the
Concurrence
of
his
Two
Houses
of
Parliament
,
when
he
shall
think
it
convenient
for
them
to
meet
.
The
Hearts
of
Kings
are
unsearchable
;
so
that
it
is
a
little
too
presumptuous
to
look
into
His
Majesties
Secret
Thoughts
:
but
according
to
the
Judgments
that
we
would
make
of
other
mens
Thoughts
by
their
Actions
,
one
would
be
tempted
to
think
,
that
His
Majesty
made
some
doubt
of
it
,
since
his
Affairs
both
at
home
and
abroad
could
not
go
the
worse
,
if
it
appeared
that
there
were
a
perfect
understanding
between
Him
and
his
Parliament
,
and
that
his
People
were
supporting
him
with
fresh
Supplies
;
and
this
House
of
Commons
is
so
much
at
his
Devotion
,
that
all
the
world
saw
how
ready
they
were
to
grant
every
thing
that
he
could
desire
of
them
,
till
he
began
to
lay
off
the
Mask
with
relation
to
the
Test
,
and
since
that
time
the
frequent
Prorogations
,
the
Closetting
,
and
the
Pains
that
has
been
taken
to
gain
Members
,
by
Promises
made
to
some
,
and
the
Disgraces
of
others
,
would
make
one
a
little
Inclined
to
think
,
that
some
doubt
was
made
of
their
Concurrence
.
But
we
must
confess
,
that
the
depth
of
His
Majesties
Judgment
is
such
,
that
we
cannot
fathom
it
,
and
therefore
we
cannot
guess
what
his
Doubts
or
his
Assurances
are
.
It
is
true
,
the
words
that
come
after
unriddle
the
Mystery
a
little
,
which
are
,
when
His
Majesty
shall
think
it
convenient
for
them
to
meet
:
for
the
meaning
of
this
seems
plain
,
that
his
Maj.
is
resolved
,
that
they
shall
never
meet
,
till
he
receives
such
Assurances
,
in
a
new
round
of
Closetting
,
that
he
●hall
be
put
out
of
doubt
concerning
it
.
VII
.
I
will
not
enter
into
the
dispute
concerning
Liberty
of
Conscience
,
and
the
Reasons
that
may
be
offered
for
it
to
a
Session
of
Parliament
;
for
there
is
scarce
any
one
point
,
that
either
with
relation
to
Religion
,
or
Politicks
,
affords
a
greater
variety
of
matter
for
Reflection
:
and
I
make
no
doubt
to
say
,
that
there
is
abundance
of
Reason
to
oblige
a
Parliament
to
review
all
the
Penal
Laws
,
either
with
relation
to
Papists
,
or
to
Dissenters
:
but
I
will
take
the
boldness
to
add
one
thing
,
that
the
Kings's
suspending
of
Laws
strikes
at
the
root
of
this
whole
Government
,
and
subverts
it
quite
:
for
if
there
is
any
thing
certain
with
relation
to
the
English
Government
,
it
is
this
,
that
the
Executive
Power
of
the
Law
is
entirely
in
the
King
;
and
the
Law
to
fortisy
him
in
the
Management
of
it
has
clothed
him
with
a
vast
Prerogative
,
and
made
it
unlawful
upon
any
pretence
whatsoever
to
resist
him
:
whereas
on
the
other
hand
,
the
Legislative
Power
is
not
so
entirely
in
the
King
,
but
that
the
Lords
and
Commons
have
such
a
share
in
it
,
that
no
Law
can
be
either
made
,
repealed
,
or
which
is
all
one
suspended
,
but
by
their
consent
:
so
that
the
placing
this
Legislative
Power
singly
in
the
King
,
is
a
subversion
of
this
whole
Government
;
since
the
Essence
of
all
Governments
consists
in
the
Subjects
of
the
Legislative
Authority
;
Acts
of
Violence
or
Injustice
,
committed
in
the
Executive
part
,
are
such
things
that
all
Princes
being
subject
to
them
,
the
peace
of
mankind
were
very
ill
secured
if
it
were
not
unlawful
to
resist
upon
any
pretence
taken
from
any
ill
Administrations
,
in
which
as
the
Law
may
be
doubtful
,
so
the
Facts
may
be
uncertain
,
and
at
worst
the
publick
Peace
must
alwayes
be
more
valued
than
any
private
Oppressions
or
Injuries
whatsoever
.
But
the
total
Subversion
of
a
Government
,
being
so
contrary
to
the
Trust
that
is
given
to
the
Prince
who
ought
to
execute
it
,
will
put
men
upon
uneasy
and
dangerous
Inquiries
:
which
will
turn
little
to
the
Advantage
of
those
who
are
driving
matters
to
such
a
doubtful
and
desperate
issue
.
VIII
.
If
there
is
any
thing
in
which
the
Exercise
of
the
Legislative
Power
seems
Indispensable
,
it
is
in
those
Oaths
of
Allegeance
and
Tests
,
that
are
thought
necessary
to
Qualify
men
either
to
be
admitted
to
enjoy
the
Protection
of
the
Law
,
or
to
bear
a
share
in
the
Government
;
for
in
these
the
Security
of
the
Government
is
chiefly
concerned
;
and
therefore
the
total
extinction
of
these
,
as
it
is
not
only
a
Suspension
of
them
,
but
a
plain
repealing
of
them
,
so
it
is
a
Subverting
of
the
whole
Foundation
of
our
Government
:
For
the
Regulation
that
King
and
Parliament
had
set
both
for
the
Subjects
having
the
Protection
of
the
State
by
the
Oath
of
Allegeance
,
and
for
a
share
in
places
of
trust
by
the
Tests
,
is
now
pluckt
up
by
the
roots
,
when
it
is
declared
,
that
these
shall
not
at
any
time
hereafter
be
required
to
be
taken
,
or
subscribed
by
any
persons
whatsoever
:
for
it
is
plain
,
that
this
is
no
Suspension
of
the
Law
,
but
a
formal
Repeal
of
it
,
in
as
plain
Words
as
can
be
conceived
.
IX
.
His
Majesty
says
,
that
the
Benefit
of
the
Service
of
all
his
Subjects
is
by
the
Law
of
Nature
Inseparably
annexed
to
and
inherent
in
his
Sacred
Person
.
It
is
somewhat
strange
,
that
when
so
many
Laws
,
that
we
all
know
are
suspended
,
the
Law
of
Nature
,
which
is
so
hard
to
be
found
out
,
should
be
cited
;
but
the
Penners
of
this
Declaration
had
b●st
let
that
Law
lie
forgotten
among
the
rest
;
for
there
is
a
scurvy
Paragraph
in
it
,
concerning
self
Preservation
,
that
is
capable
of
very
unacceptable
Glosses
.
It
is
hard
to
tell
what
Section
of
the
Law
of
Nature
has
markt
out
either
such
a
Form
of
Government
,
or
such
a
Family
for
it
.
And
if
His
Majesty
renounces
his
Pretensions
to
our
Allegeance
as
founded
on
the
Laws
of
England
;
and
betakes
himself
to
this
Law
of
Nature
,
he
will
perhaps
find
the
Counsel
was
a
little
too
rash
;
but
to
make
the
most
of
this
that
can
be
,
the
Law
of
Nations
or
Nature
does
indeed
allow
the
Governours
of
all
Societies
a
Power
to
serve
themselves
of
every
Member
of
it
in
the
cases
of
extream
Danger
;
but
no
Law
of
Nature
that
has
been
yet
heard
of
will
conclude
,
that
if
by
special
Laws
,
a
sort
of
men
have
been
disabled
from
all
Imployments
,
that
a
Prince
who
at
his
Coronation
Swore
to
maintain
those
Laws
,
may
at
his
pleasure
extinguish
all
these
Disabilities
.
X.
At
the
end
of
the
Declaration
,
as
in
a
Postscript
,
His
Majesty
assures
his
Subjects
,
that
he
will
maintain
them
in
their
Properties
,
as
well
in
Church
and
Abbey-Lands
,
as
other
Lands
:
but
the
Chief
of
all
their
Properties
being
the
share
that
they
have
by
their
Representatives
in
the
Legislative
Power
;
this
Declaration
,
which
breaks
thro
that
,
is
no
great
Evidence
that
the
rest
will
be
maintained
:
and
to
speak
plainly
,
when
a
Coronation
Oath
is
so
little
remembred
,
other
Promises
must
have
a
proportioned
degree
of
Credit
given
to
them
:
as
for
the
Abbey
Lands
,
the
keeping
them
from
the
Church
is
according
to
the
Principles
of
that
Religion
Sacriledge
;
and
that
is
a
Mortal
Sin
,
and
there
can
no
Absolution
be
given
to
any
who
continue
in
it
:
and
so
this
Promise
being
an
Obligation
to
maintain
men
in
a
Mortal
Sin
,
is
null
and
void
of
it self
:
Church-Lands
are
also
according
to
the
Doctrine
of
their
Canonists
,
so
immediatly
Gods
Right
,
that
the
Pope
himself
is
only
the
Administrator
and
Dispencer
,
but
is
not
the
Master
of
them
;
he
can
indeed
make
a
truck
for
God
,
or
let
them
so
low
,
that
God
shall
be
an
easy
Landlord
:
but
he
cannot
alter
Gods
Property
,
nor
translate
the
Right
that
is
in
him
to
Sacrilegious
Laymen
and
Hereticks
.
XI
.
One
of
the
Effects
of
this
Declaration
,
will
be
the
setting
on
foot
a
new
run
of
Addresses
over
the
Nation
:
for
there
is
nothing
how
Impudent
and
base
soever
,
of
which
the
abject
flattery
of
a
Slavish
Spirit
is
not
capable
.
It
must
be
confest
,
to
the
reproach
of
the
Age
,
that
all
those
strains
of
flattery
among
the
Romans
,
that
Tacitus
sets
forth
with
so
much
just
Scorn
,
are
modest
things
,
compared
to
what
this
Nation
has
produced
within
these
seven
years
:
only
if
our
Flattery
has
come
short
of
the
Refinedness
of
the
Romans
,
it
has
exceeded
theirs
as
much
in
its
loathed
Fulsomness
.
The
late
King
set
out
a
Declaration
,
in
which
he
gave
the
most
solemn
Assurances
possible
of
his
adhering
to
the
Church
of
England
,
and
to
the
Religion
established
by
Law
,
and
of
his
Resolution
to
have
Frequent
Parliaments
;
upon
which
the
whole
Nation
fell
as
it
were
into
Raptures
of
Joy
and
Flattery
:
but
tho
he
lived
four
Years
after
that
,
he
called
no
Parliament
,
notwithstanding
the
Law
for
Triennial
Parliaments
:
and
the
manner
of
his
Death
,
and
the
Papers
printed
after
his
Death
in
his
Name
,
have
sufficiently
shewed
,
that
he
was
equally
sincere
in
both
those
Assurances
that
he
gave
,
as
well
in
that
Relating
to
Religion
,
as
in
that
other
Relating
to
Frequent
Parliaments
;
yet
upon
his
Death
a
new
set
of
Addresses
appeared
,
in
which
,
all
that
Flattery
could
Invent
was
brought
forth
,
in
the
Commendations
of
a
Prince
,
to
whose
Memory
the
greatest
kindness
can
be
done
,
is
to
forget
him
:
and
because
his
present
Majesty
upon
his
coming
to
the
Throne
gave
some
very
general
Promise
of
Maintaining
the
Church
of
England
,
this
was
magnified
in
so
Extravagant
a
strain
,
as
if
it
had
been
a
Security
greater
than
any
that
the
Law
could
give
:
tho
by
the
regard
that
the
King
has
both
to
it
and
to
the
Laws
,
it
appears
that
he
is
resolved
to
maintain
both
equally
:
since
then
the
Nation
has
already
made
it self
sufficiently
ridiculous
both
to
the
present
and
to
all
succeeding
Ages
;
it
is
time
that
at
last
men
should
grow
weary
,
and
become
ashamed
of
their
Folly.
XII
.
The
Nonconformists
are
now
invited
to
set
an
Example
to
the
rest
:
and
they
who
have
valued
themselves
hitherto
upon
their
Opposition
to
Popery
,
and
that
have
quarrelled
with
the
Church
of
England
,
for
some
small
Approaches
to
it
,
in
a
few
Ceremonies
,
are
now
solicited
to
rejoyce
,
because
the
Laws
that
secure
us
against
it
,
are
all
plucked
up
:
since
they
enjoy
at
present
and
during
pleasure
leave
to
meet
together
.
It
is
natural
for
all
men
to
love
to
be
set
at
ease
,
especially
in
the
matters
of
their
Consciences
;
but
it
is
visible
,
that
those
who
allow
them
this
favour
,
do
it
with
no
other
design
,
but
that
under
a
pretence
of
a
General
Toleration
,
they
may
Introduce
a
Religion
which
must
persecute
all
equally
:
it
is
likewise
apparent
how
much
they
are
hated
,
and
how
much
they
have
been
persecuted
by
the
Instigation
of
those
who
now
Court
them
,
and
who
have
now
no
game
that
is
more
promising
,
than
the
engaging
them
and
the
Church
of
England
into
new
Quarrels
:
and
as
for
the
Promises
now
made
to
them
,
it
cannot
be
supposed
that
they
will
be
more
lasting
than
those
that
were
made
some
time
ago
to
the
Church
of
England
,
who
had
both
a
better
Title
in
Law
and
greater
Merit
upon
the
Crown
to
assure
them
that
they
should
be
well
used
than
these
can
pretend
to
.
The
Nation
has
scarce
forgiven
some
of
the
Church
of
England
the
Persecution
into
which
they
have
suffered
themselves
to
be
cosened
:
tho
now
that
they
see
Popery
barefaced
,
the
Stand
that
they
have
made
,
and
the
vigorous
Opposition
that
they
have
given
to
it
,
is
that
which
makes
all
men
willing
to
forget
what
is
past
,
and
raises
again
the
Glory
of
a
Church
that
was
not
a
little
stained
by
the
Indiscretion
and
Weakness
of
those
,
that
were
too
apt
to
believe
and
hope
,
and
so
suffered
themselves
to
be
made
a
Property
to
those
who
would
now
make
them
a
Sacrifice
.
The
Sufferings
of
the
Nonconformists
,
and
the
Fury
that
the
Popish
Party
expressed
against
them
,
had
recommended
them
so
much
to
the
Compassions
of
the
Nation
,
and
had
given
them
so
just
a
pretension
to
favour
in
a
better
time
,
that
it
will
look
like
a
curse
of
God
upon
them
,
if
a
few
men
,
whom
the
Court
has
gained
to
betray
them
,
can
have
such
an
ill
Influence
upon
them
as
to
make
them
throw
away
all
that
Merit
,
and
those
Compassions
which
their
Sufferings
have
procured
them
;
and
to
go
and
court
those
who
are
only
seemingly
kind
to
them
,
that
they
may
destroy
both
them
and
us
.
They
must
remember
that
as
the
Church
of
England
is
the
only
Establishment
that
our
Religion
has
by
Law
;
so
it
is
the
main
body
of
the
Nation
,
and
all
the
Sects
are
but
small
and
stragling
parties
:
and
if
the
Legal
Settlement
of
the
Church
is
dissolved
,
and
that
body
is
once
broken
,
these
lesser
bodies
will
be
all
at
Mercy
:
and
it
is
an
easy
thing
to
define
what
the
Mercies
of
the
Church
of
Rome
are
.
XIII
.
But
tho
it
must
be
confessed
,
that
the
Nonconformists
are
still
under
some
Temptations
,
to
receive
every
thing
that
gives
them
present
ease
,
with
a
little
too
much
kindness
;
since
they
lie
exposed
to
many
severe
Laws
,
of
which
they
have
of
late
felt
the
weight
very
heavily
,
and
as
they
are
men
,
and
some
of
them
as
ill
Natured
men
as
other
people
,
so
it
is
no
wonder
if
upon
the
first
surprises
of
the
Declaration
,
they
are
a
little
delighted
,
to
see
the
Church
of
England
,
after
all
its
Services
and
Submissions
to
the
Court
,
so
much
mortified
by
it
;
so
that
taking
all
together
it
will
not
be
strange
if
they
commit
some
Follies
upon
this
occasion
.
Yet
on
the
other
hand
,
it
passes
all
imagination
,
to
see
some
of
the
Church
of
England
,
especially
those
whose
Natures
we
know
are
so
particularly
sharpned
in
the
point
of
Persecution
,
chiefly
when
it
is
levelled
against
the
Dissenters
,
rejoyce
at
this
Declaration
,
and
make
Addresses
upon
it
.
It
is
hard
to
think
that
they
have
attained
to
so
high
a
pitch
of
Christian
Charity
,
as
to
thank
those
who
do
now
despitefully
use
them
,
and
that
as
an
earnest
that
within
a
little
while
they
will
persecute
them
.
This
will
be
an
Original
,
and
a
Master
piece
in
Flattery
,
which
must
needs
draw
the
last
degrees
of
Contempt
on
such
as
are
capable
of
so
abject
and
sordid
a
Compliance
,
and
that
not
only
from
all
the
true
Members
of
the
Church
of
England
,
but
likewise
from
those
of
the
Church
of
Rome
it self
;
for
every
man
is
apt
to
esteem
an
Enemy
that
is
brave
even
in
his
Misfortunes
,
as
much
as
he
despises
those
whose
minds
sink
with
their
Condition
.
For
what
is
it
that
these
men
would
thank
the
King
?
Is
it
because
he
breaks
those
Laws
that
are
made
in
their
Favour
,
and
for
their
Protection
:
and
is
now
striking
at
the
Root
of
all
the
Legal
Settlement
that
they
have
for
their
Religion
?
Or
is
it
because
that
at
the
same
time
that
the
King
professes
a
Religion
that
condemns
his
Supremacy
,
yet
he
is
not
contented
with
the
Exercise
of
it
as
it
is
warranted
by
Law
,
but
carries
it
so
far
as
to
erect
a
Court
contrary
to
the
express
words
of
a
Law
that
was
so
lately
made
:
That
Court
takes
care
to
maintain
a
due
proportion
between
their
Constitution
and
all
their
proceedings
,
that
so
all
may
be
of
a
piece
,
and
all
equally
contrary
to
Law.
They
have
suspended
one
Bishop
,
only
because
he
would
not
do
that
which
was
not
in
his
Power
to
do
:
for
since
there
is
no
Extrajudiciary
Authority
in
England
,
a
Bishop
can
no
more
proceed
to
a
Sentence
of
Suspension
against
a
Clergy-man
without
a
Tryal
,
and
the
hearing
of
Parties
,
than
a
Judge
can
give
a
Sentence
in
his
Chamber
without
an
Indictment
,
a
Tryal
,
or
a
Iury
:
and
because
one
of
the
Greatest
Bodies
of
England
would
not
break
their
Oaths
,
and
obey
a
Mandate
that
plainly
contradicted
them
,
we
see
to
what
a
pitch
this
is
like
to
be
carried
.
I
will
not
Anticipate
upon
this
illegal
Court
,
to
tell
what
Iudgments
are
coming
;
but
without
carrying
our
Iealousies
too
far
,
one
may
safely
conclude
,
that
they
will
never
depart
so
far
from
their
first
Institution
,
as
to
have
any
regard
,
either
to
our
Religion
,
or
our
Laws
,
or
Liberties
,
in
any
thing
they
do
.
If
all
this
were
acted
by
avowed
Papists
,
as
we
are
sure
it
is
projected
by
such
,
there
were
nothing
Extraordinary
in
it
:
but
that
which
carries
our
Indignation
a
little
too
far
to
be
easily
governed
,
is
to
see
some
Pretended
Protestants
,
and
a
few
Bishops
,
among
those
that
are
the
fatal
Instruments
of
pulling
down
the
Church
of
England
,
and
that
those
Mercenaries
Sacrifice
their
Religion
and
their
Church
to
their
Ambition
and
Interests
;
this
has
such
peculiar
Characters
of
Misfortune
upon
it
,
that
it
seems
it
is
not
enough
if
we
perish
without
pity
,
since
we
fall
by
that
hand
that
we
have
so
much
supported
and
fortifyed
,
but
we
must
become
the
Scorn
of
all
the
world
,
since
we
have
produced
such
an
unnatural
Brood
,
that
even
while
they
are
pretending
to
be
the
Sons
of
the
Church
of
England
,
are
cutting
their
Mother's
Throat
:
and
not
content
with
Judas's
Crime
,
of
saying
,
Hail
Master
,
and
kissing
him
,
while
they
are
betraying
him
into
the
hands
of
others
;
these
carry
their
Wickedness
further
,
and
say
,
Hail
Mother
,
and
then
they
themselves
Murther
her
.
If
after
all
this
we
were
called
on
to
bear
this
as
Christians
;
and
to
suffer
it
as
Subjects
;
if
we
were
required
in
Patience
to
possess
our
own
Souls
,
ând
to
be
in
Charity
with
our
Enemies
;
and
which
is
more
,
to
forgive
our
False
Brethren
,
who
add
Treachery
to
their
Hatred
;
the
Exhortation
were
seasonable
,
and
indeed
a
little
necessary
;
for
humane
Nature
cannot
easily
take
down
things
of
such
a
hard
digestion
:
but
to
tell
us
that
we
must
make
Addresses
,
and
offer
Thanks
for
all
this
,
is
to
Insult
a
little
too
much
upon
us
in
our
Sufferings
:
and
he
that
can
believe
that
a
dry
and
cautiously
worded
promise
of
maintaining
the
Church
of
England
,
will
be
Religiously
observed
after
all
that
we
have
seen
,
and
is
upon
that
carried
so
far
out
of
his
Wits
as
to
Address
and
give
Thanks
,
and
will
believe
still
,
such
a
man
has
nothing
to
excuse
him
from
believing
Transubstantiation
it self
;
for
it
is
plain
that
he
can
bring
himself
to
believe
even
when
the
thing
is
contrary
to
the
clearest
Evidence
that
his
senses
can
give
him
.
Si
populus
hic
vult
decipi
decipiatur
.
POSTSCRIPT
.
THese
reflections
were
writ
soon
after
the
Declaration
came
to
my
hands
,
but
the
Matter
of
them
was
so
tender
,
and
the
Conveyance
of
them
to
the
Press
was
so
uneasy
,
that
they
appear
now
too
late
to
have
one
effect
that
was
Designed
by
them
,
which
was
,
the
diverting
men
from
making
Addresses
upon
it
;
yet
if
what
is
here
proposed
makes
men
become
so
far
wise
as
to
be
ashamed
of
what
they
have
done
,
and
is
a
means
to
keep
them
from
carrying
their
Courtship
further
than
good
words
,
this
Paper
will
not
come
too
late
.
FINIS
.