A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…

But Satan maligning the just vindication of the Non-conformists against these accusations, hath by false suggestions stirred up some, who differ from the rest as well as we, to clamour against this Book, which was published for the clearing of the innocent: And now they have disclaimed it, they have renounced their own part in those peaceable Principles which they disown, and in this Vindication; But I must desire the next Accuser, to charge this Renunciation upon none but those that he can prove to be guilty of it, and not on the Non-conformists. And the rather because (by a self confutation) they have showed themselves, that the old Non-conformists were more sober and peaceable; And I can assure them, that the most of the Non-conformists Ministers of my acquaintance, are not a jot more rigorous or farther from them, than the old Nonconformists were. And that those that treated with the Bishops in 1660. did yield to such an Episcopacy, as the old Non-conformists would scarcely have generally consented to (viz. Bishop Ushers model in his Reduction.)

But Satan maligning the just vindication of the Non-conformists against these accusations, hath by false suggestions stirred up some, who differ from the rest as well as we, to clamour against this Book, which was published for the clearing of the innocent: And now they have disclaimed it, they have renounced their own part in those peaceable Principles which they disown, and in this Vindication; But I must desire the next Accuser, to charge this Renunciation upon none but those that he can prove to be guilty of it, and not on the Non-conformists. And the rather because (by a self confutation) they have shewed themselves, that the old Non-conformists were more sober and peaceable; And I can assure them, that the most of the Non-conformists Ministers of my acquaintance, are not a jot more rigorous or farther from them, than the old Nonconformists were. And that those that treated with the Bishops in 1660. did yield to such an Episcopacy, as the old Non-conformists would scarcely have generally consented to (viz. Bishop Ushers model in his Reduction.)

If the Accusers of the Non-conformists shall say, [By the censure of your Book and Person you see what Non-conformists are, that will join in receiving