791 / 846
Numb.
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them
this
Liturgy, A
Reply to
tbeir Atlfwar
to
our
Exception, and
A
Petition
for
Peace
'
and
Concord,
all
which
they had
appointed nie
to
draw
up, and had examined
'
and contented to. We waited for an Anfwer to
all,
and never had
an
Aofwerto
t
any one
of
them
;
but they
kept them
and
faid
nothing
of
them
t
I
wasefpech
t
allydefrous to
have
heard
their
Exceptionsagainft ourLiturgy(when they thought
'
we
would have difagreed
among
our
felves)
and urged tome
of
them to it, and
'
could never get
a
Word
of
Anfwer, or Exception, which made
me wonder,
as
'
well
knowing I.
$Ow
very willing
Tome
were to have found
it
faulty. z.
And
e.
how
hard
it
is
ceffitated
hafte to write
loch
a `thing
that
(hall
lsot be liable to
`many Except
Yea,
when
Roger L'Strange
after wrote
again] us, hefaith lit,
'
de at
all agar
t
Liturgy,
fate that
we
left
Men
at
toomuchLiberty
; to
which
r
we then raid,' That
impaling and
reilraining
was
not our
work,
but the
Billions,
'
who
we fuppofedupon
Debate, would
have toonssr is
tone.:it.:.,ds
ow.if:
this
All
'
Concord,
andno
Attffver
or
Exception'
Mont
them
that
,extorted
this.
Work from us,
'
be
agreeable
to
the Report
you
make, or if
you have dealt
bore
like
a
Minilterof
'
Truth, I.pray
you help me to difcern it.
The
Book
with
thereft
was
printedlong
"ago,
molt
of
them by
Tome
poor:Scriviners,
that
being
ifed
in tránfcribiag,
had
'
got
a
Copy,
and
did
it for
Gain...
t
Il.
Another-Palfage
is
P.
293.
No
fnful
AH
beintfeliiired
to
make
mintIIerial
Con-
'
fortuityunlawful,
[which
if
there.
bad
bear,
they orfowe'othent
wouldaend
night
to
have
'
difeovered
it,
and
then,
I
doubt not,
it would
by
Authority have betriiakea sway,. but
'
that
being not done].
'Here
Idefire
you
to:'fatisfyantina..
few things
:.e.
When
as'eti
our PublickRe-
'
ply and
forefaid
Petition,
again(} The
oklConforsnity
were never anfwered
to
'this
Day,
is
it
ingenuous
to
cake this
fora
Confutation, barelythus
to
fey
[it
at
'cot.
done] fisould
flay.
[-it
was neveryet
lifeovered
that
Ep:fcopaçy
ss
(awful
,1
would
.
'
you not
have called
me,
=--
-as
long as
Samuel,
Billon, Hooker,
tire;.
are,unanfwered
?
s
z.
Do you
not
know
what
abundance
of
old
have thought they
tlifeovered
the
.
'
finfulnefs
of
Conformity
(Bradfhaw,
Nicolas, Ames;
Parker, Jacob, Cartwright,
,,
'
&c.) and what
Alouadel,"Salmafrtu, Getfow,.
BM'
, Didaclave,
&c. have
written
againft
Prelacy, and
tome
of
late againft
.
our
iLonformity,
(Cawdry,
FBckm,m,
'
and others,
yet
unanfwered)
And
is
this
your
dry.
Denyal
a
rational
Gonfi
'
tenon
?.
>,
3.
Would
not
your Words
make
the
ignorant
believe
that
we hav%the
Liberty
'
of
the Phek,
and
may;
do it
if
we
will
t
anddo
not,
the
Adt of
Padi
imeno,
and
'
the
fevere SearchdS
of
dhe'Prefs,: and
the:PrintersRefuf$
thew
how
Jaffe
(uch
an
'
Intimation
is :
It maybe
Come
fmall.Pamphlet may, with
much
a
do
creep
out;
'but
ib cannot
any
thing
_that
is
fullhad fatisfagtory:
,Que Caufe
is
a
meer
Stranger
'roour
Accitfers;
(it
kerns
even
to fithlas,ybu)
becau(e,we
cannot
have leave
to
'
it
:
A few
have heretofore when the d'atrio
was tefi
drift
gotJotnevihat out,
'
to littlepurpofe
(Mr.
Hick
vans
was
beyond
fea)
:.
;
But,
notbiisg
..
that
may
make
'.uswell
ünderlfood.. And
is:.it
fit
work
thus
Miniffer
to
blame,
Men
thus
Pubes
f
lickly for
not
doing Inpoffibflitfes
<u
-
t.
'
4.
lt'muftbe
fitppofedthac you
!Mew
theft
thingss,'
r.
That
thé Law
forbids
us
'to
deprave-or
fpeak Igafnft
the
Liturgyaìpon,grievous.Penalties.
z.
That. the
Ca.
'
non excommunicateth
us
epja
faln,
that
-
psy.ftnes&crnsaïa
Ju,loaa,
if
we do but fay
'
that
there
is
any thing
that
a
Matt:rraay
toe
weitha
good Conluience conformrso,
3.
And that our prefent
Governors-ate
"iegeinft
it.
4.
And
that
for doing
it
we
'
are fine
by Conformifls
to
be calletf
alifpbedilet
to
Authority,
and Seditious.
%.
'
And
that
we are
fo
acculld
by
ysar:dommonly
for
Prebching when forbidden,
'
which
is
as
touch
our.
vowed Duty:futecai Writing.
And
do
you
now'tell
us
that
we
ought
to'difeover
it
if
these
be
any
fnful
Asit
Commanded:-
,Will you warrant
us
'againit
the Charge
of
Ditobedience, òr do
you chiveSrson
that,
which
if
we
do,
'
you know we
are
aireadyvjedged
toexcommunicatedJailes
and Roiue. We have
'long
beg'd
of
Parliartlent
men
that we might but once
have leave
to
fpeak, for
t
our
felves
'(
which we never yet
had
as
to the new Conformity
to
this
Day);
and
`
yet
we might petition for filch
leave;
and they
tell
us
theft Fifteen
Years
almoft,
"there
is
no hope, it will but ruine you.
-I
have .offered two
of
the molt eminent
r
Billions
to beg it
of
them
or
any on
my
Knees,
that
we
might but once
publifh
'
the
Cafe
and Realons
of our
diffent.
And
is it
not enough to
be
Fifteen
or
Six..
'teen
Years'ejebted,
fslenced,
(corned,
accufed,
as
unworthy
to
be
endured;
and
'to
be
'filently.,Patient,
and
never anfwer
for
our
felves,
nor
.liaye
the
:common
'
Juf}ice
of
being
heard, but we mutt
have
the
additional
Abufe,
to
be told
that
'
we