The `Preface, 4f ufe ofthe Ceremonies, and full compliance with Epifco- pal Jurifdidion. 4. Hereon thofe who were for the Eftablifhment,hav- ing fecured their Interefts therein, and obtained 'Power, began after a while to Opprefs, Excommunicate, Si- lence, Deprive, and Imprifon thofe who diffented from them, and couldnot come up unto a full praical com- pliance with their Inftitutions and Rules. Yet the Ge- nerality of thofe fo filenced and deprived, abode in Privacyunder their Sufferings, hoping for a Reforma- tion at one time or another , without betaking them- felvesunto any other Courfe for theEdification ofthem- felves or their People. 5. After fundryyears, force men, partly filenced and deprived, as unto their e2Winiflry, and partly purfued with other Cenfures and Penalties began to give place unto feevere Thoughts of the Church of England and its Communion, and withdrawing themfelves into forreign Parts openly avowed a Separation from it. And if the extremities which many had been put unto for their meer Diffent and Nonconformity unto the Eftabliíhed Rule, which with a good Confcience they could not comply with, were reprefented, it might, ifnot excufe, yet alleviate the Evil of that Severity in Separation which they fell into. 6. But hereon a double Inconvenience, yea, Evil did enfue, whence all the Advantages made ufe of in this Story, to load the prefent Caufe of the A onconfar- war, did arife.
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