H f ory ofthe Puritans, examin'd. 347 ment of the Church, againft the Book of Common- " prayer, &c. [againft the Freedomof Parliament] " and been thank'd for it ? And (hall it be call'dMu- " tiny in the graveft and beft Citizens in London, " and Gentry [and Commonalty] in Kent, toframe " Petitions to be govern'd by the known Laws of the " Land, and not by Motes of Parliament ? Is not " this evidently the Work of a FaSion ?" The following Words, omitted by Mr. Neal. [' Within or without both Houfes,who deceive the Truft repos'd in them, and have now told us what Mutiny is ? To ftir up Men to a Care of preferving our Prerogative, maintaining the Dif- ' cipline of the Church, upholding and continuing the Reverence and Solemnity of God's Service, encouraging ofLearning, is Mutiny. Rufhwortb, p. 713.'1 Let Heaven and Earth, God and Man judge between us and thefe Men. [` And however fuch Petitions are there call'd mutinous, and the Petitioners threatned, difcountenanced, cenfured and imprifoned ; if they bring fuch - lawful Peti- ` tions tous, we will gracioufly receive them, and defend them and their Rights, againft what Pow- ' er fi ever, with the uttermoft hazard of our Be- ' ing.' Omitted.] * The Conclufion ; ' We have been the longer (to our very great pain) in this Anfwer, that we might give the World fatisfadion,even in the molt trivial particulars, that have been obje8ed againft us ; and that we may not again be reproach'd by any more prudent Omiffions. If we have been compell'd to (harper Language than we affect let it he confider'd, how vile, how infufferable our Provocations have been ; and except to repel Force, be to affault ; and to give pun tual and ne- ceffary Anfwers to rough and infolent Damands, * Rufhmorth, Vol. IV. p. 7 t 3. C be
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