f 190 be the Cafe. As to Queen Elizabeth in particular, who is fomuch concern- ed in the Tranfaóions under Debate, we have a Teftimony already mention- ed, whereby it appears, that one Prin- ciple upon which the grounded her Pro- ceedings, was, that Confciences are not to be forced, but to be won and reduced by Force ofTruth. The Quefîion there- fore between us is ; whether the Con duc`l of thofe Puritans, who were im- prifon'd, or otherwife punilhed, did not affect the Peace and Safety ofthe Go- vernment they livedunder ? If it did, this, upon Mr. N's own Principles, ceafes to be a religious Matter, and becoming a State Crime, is of Courfe punifhable as 'itch. It ought to be remark'd that Mr. N's Account of their Sufferings, and Beha- viour that occafioned thefe Sufferings, is chiefly taken from themfelves : He has obtain'd, as he acquaints us in his Preface a Copy of a large MS. Col- ofleElion Papers, the Originals where- of are faid to be lodged in the Univer- fity of Cambridge, but he names no particular Library or College ; nor does he acquaint us when the Papers themfelves were wrote, by whom or who was the Collator of them. In fhort, his Account of this MS. Col- ledion
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