The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…

Ans. You now practice what you plead for. ⟨p. 88⟩Can you tell what every Subscriber to this day thought? He is yet living that at the Savoy undertook to prove it an Act of Mercy to them to put all from the Sacrament that did not receive it kneeling. And you know that All the Bishops in the Lords House had their part in making that Act of Uniformity, with all its penalties. And as certainly they did consent to the making and imposing of it; so what should make you sure that they never meant (no not one of them) that any others should be bound to the same, when they put it into the Book, and put in the words [All things contained] and when it is so natural to such men to desire that all men approve of what they do? I should think it ten to one, that they that think it their duty to do such a thing, as the silencing of two thousand Ministers on those terms (or five thousand if they had not conformed,) will be very much concerned to have their act approved: And that they that will not endure us to speak in the praying Desk, or at either Sacrament to God in any one word but what they write down for us to say, are likely to desire that we may be also bound to approve of their Sanctions of this Law. But I am sure you speak that which you know not to be true.

§ 5. To your Seventh I answer, What would have plainer than the express Assertion of the Contents themselves?

§ 6. In your Eighth you say, [Many Conformable men think Nothing in the Book is to be assented to, but what is ordinarily to be read, and the Ceremonies to be used.] Ans. Put this ⟨p. 89⟩down then as one point of our Nonconformity, which deserveth silencing; and ruin that, when we cannot profess to [Assent and Consent to all things contained and prescribed in the Book] and mean by [All things, only the Ceremonies, and so much as is ordinarily to be read.] But again, teach not Papists to expound the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy at this rate.