The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…

And truly, if it be God and Conscience that you would have banished out of England, and Infidelity, Sadduceism, Hobbists, Malignity, Drunkenness, Whoredom, Perjury, that you would have take the place, I dare say that the Devil will not fight against such Concord, but will promote it withal his policy and power, by himself and all his agents Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military. 4. Yet further, Why look you not on all the rest of the World, as well as Spain and Italy? Indeed Japan restored Concord, but it was by so devilish and cruel Torments of Christians and those that would not accuse them, as rendereth their names odious to mankind (of which Varenius will satisfy you.) But what France, what Ireland and others have got by cruelty, I have told you before. And though I am far from justifying the Hungarians (men that I know not or their case) for flying to the Turks for help, do you think that the Countries now ruined by War, and the many thousands in Austria, Silesia, Moravia, and Hungary, killed and taken Captives, and the thousands killed in Fight, and the Famine that the next year is like to come on the ruined Countries, where Corn and Hay are all destroyed, and the bloody War that is yet like to follow before the end; I say, do you think that all these are not a dear price to be paid, for hindering men to Worship God only according to the Scripture? Would leave to serve God only as Christ and his Apostles appointed and did themselves, have cost the Emperor and People, dearer than all this amounteth to? 5. And the World knoweth that (as Cromwell got his strength and usurpation in England by his Liberty of Conscience, so) the Turks won Constantinople and the Eastern Empire, much by this. For when their Emperors were become dissolute or cruel, killing and deposing one another, putting out their eyes, and thrusting them into Monasteries (forced Saints); and when ambitious ⟨p. 282⟩ungodly Bishops were still striving for superiority, and persecuting Dissenters as not Orthodox, and mutinous Soldiers pulling down Emperors, and setting up others, the poor Christians thought that to defend such a Government against the Turks that gave all men the Liberty of their own Religion, would cost them dearer than it was worth; and so were the more remiss in their resistance, and the easilier yielded to the Conquerors:

And truly, if it be God and Conscience that you would have banished out of England, and Infidelity, Sadduceism, Hobbists, Malignity, Drunkenness, Whoredom, Perjury, that you would have take the place, I dare say that the Devil will not fight against such Concord, but will promote it withal his policy and power, by himself and all his agents Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military. 4. Yet further, Why look you not on all the rest of the World, as well as Spain and Italy? Indeed Iapan restored Concord, but it was by so devilish and cruel Torments of Christians and those that would not accuse them, as rendreth their names odious to mankind (of which Varenius will satisfy you.) But what France, what Ireland and others have got by cruelty, I have told you before. And though I am far from justifying the Hungarians (men that I know not or their case) for flying to the Turks for help, do you think that the Countries now ruined by War, and the many thousands in Austria, Silesia, Moravia, and Hungary, killed and taken Captives, and the thousands killed in Fight, and the Famine that the next year is like to come on the ruined Countries, where Corn and Hay are all destroyed, and the bloody War that is yet like to follow before the end; I say, do you think that all these are not a dear price to be paid, for hindering men to Worship God only according to the Scripture? Would leave to serve God only as Christ and his Apostles appointed and did themselves, have cost the Emperour and People, dearer than all this amounteth to? 5. And the World knoweth that (as Cromwel got his strength and usurpation in England by his Liberty of Conscience, so) the Turks won Constantinople and the Eastern Empire, much by this. For when their Emperours were become dissolute or cruel, killing and deposing one another, putting out their eyes, and thrusting them into Monasteries (forced Saints); and when ambitious