[ 153 right Bottom, they were in the !Prong who did not comply with it : If this was a Miftake in their TVill, they are juftly to be blamed ; if in the Under- flanding only, to be pitied. But in either Cafe the Legiflature is blame- lefs, while they confulted the general Good, and took the moll °Pdual Methods to eflablifh the Proteflant Religion. However, tho' the Govern- ment could not in Principle or Pru- dence gratify the Genevians, by efla- blifhing their Platform, and the enat- ing penal Laws againft Difenters from it, yet they indulged thefeGentlemen . for a long Time in Non-conformity, and fuffer'd them to enjoy many and confiderable Preferments in the Church, till their own Conduct put fome Stop to this Clemency. But ftill, under all Provocations, peaceable, quiet and con- fcientious Men met with great Favour and little Diíturbance. " The Queen N's Hiflory " (fays Mr. N.) connivedat their Non- 1)`4' p vi° " conformity, till her Government was fettled, but then declared roundly, " the had fixt her Standard, and would " have all her Subje&s conform to it ; " upon which the Bithops ftiffen'd in " their Behaviour, explain'd away their " Promifes, and became too fevere " against their diffenting Brethren : " Thus
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