[148] we offer to beg on our knees for leave todo it j we humbly intreat them to weary men awake no more with that canting. i. As long as the Kings Declaration about Ecclefiaftical ,affairs is vifible 2. And as long as our Reply and our Reformed additions to the Liturgy, and ourPetition for Peace which refpeed the old Conformity remain un- anfwered by thole to whom in 166o we did prefent them: 3. And till we are once called or allowed to fpeak far our fclves ,againft the new conforno ty; a favour which the juftice of old Romane Eleathens, yea and fplenetick Jews did grant to all that were accufed before they puni- fhed them, but fnce Popery prevailed in the world is become a thing among them not to be expected. 4. And as long as men know that Bifhop l4ikns and Dr. Burton appointed by the Lord Keeper Bridgman to treat with fome of us of the terms of `Union, (faying it was His Ma jefties Pleafure,) did come to a full agreement with us in termini; , which was drawn up into the form of an A l by no worfe a man: than that PILLAR OF JUSTICE the excellent Judge Flak, and the Parliament prefently Voted that no fuch Act fhould bebrought in and offered, Dear Brethren, God is the father of Lights and with him is no darknefs : Men may be mocked, but God is not mocked : If the day that will brirg works ofdarknefs to light, and finally clear the Innocent, be not the object of certain faith and hope, let our caufe be bad, and-let us as fools be judged fuch as have forfaken our belt hopes: But that it is orherwite we believe, and therefore appeal to a righteous God from an unrighteous world XXXVIII,
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