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

7. And know you not that a Bishop hath no power against the Canons? The Canons are their own Laws and Judgment, and bind them: And ⟨p. 118⟩when the Canon saith, e. g. He shall be suspended that giveth the Sacrament to one that kneeleth not; or that the Non-conformists are ipso facto Excommunicate, &c. Hath the Bishop authority to say the contrary?

8. And you know that I wrote not to accuse you, or any Man for Conforming, but to tell them that judge us worthy to be Silenced and Ruined, what our Non-conformity is: And what use then is your own Latitude to me, or such as I, though I went your own way? For I have asked and heard the Opinion of divers Bishops already, and they have said clean contrary to you. I have heard him that first forbade me Preaching in his Diocese, say, that [The Liturgy forbiddeth delivering the Sacrament to any that Kneel not.] I can show it you under his Hand, that the Priest must not be Judge, when to omit the forementioned words at the burial of the Dead; nor tolerated in such Liberty as you presume on. I have been told by a Bishop, That seeing Christ died for all, the Children of any Parents in the World have right to Baptism, and any Man hath as good right to present to it an Infidel's Child, as to take in an exposed Infidel's Child to his House in Charity. I told you, that Bishop Sanderson, publicly before the Bishops, Nemine contradicente, told me, That I need not question Baptizing any Infidel's Child, if God-Fathers presented him according to the Order of the Church of England. Are we not then concluded against Conformity by the Bishop's judgment, by your own Rule? And must not you be a Non-conformist in the ⟨p. 119⟩Diocese of any such Bishop as these?

8. And you know that I wrote not to accuse you, or any Man for Conforming, but to tell them that judge us worthy to be Silenced and Ruined, what our Non-conformity is: And what use then is your own Latitude to me, or such as I, though I went your own way? For I have askt and heard the Opinion of divers Bishops already, and they have said clean contrary to you. I have heard him that first forbad me Preaching in his Diocess, say, that [The Liturgy forbiddeth delivering the Sacrament to any that Kneel not.] I can shew it you under his Hand, that the Priest must not be Judge, when to omit the forementioned words at the burial of the Dead; nor tolerated in such Liberty as you presume on. I have been told by a Bishop, That seeing Christ died for all, the Children of any Parents in the World have right to Baptism, and any Man hath as good right to present to it an Infidel's Child, as to take in an exposed Infidel's Child to his House in Charity. I told you, that Bishop Sanderson, publickly before the Bishops, Nemine contradicente, told me, That I need not question Baptizing any Infidel's Child, if God-Fathers presented him according to the Order of the Church of England. Are we not then concluded against Conformity by the Bishop's judgment, by your own Rule? And must not you be a Non-conformist in the