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

Q. 10. Suppose it be Ignorance and Error in such Ministers, as take it to be a sin against God (yea, a heinous sin) to take all the Oaths, Declarations, Subscriptions, and Covenants imposed for Conformity (while they willingly take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy); and suppose it be an Error in those People, who think their Souls need better Pastoral Helps than they can have in many Parishes; shall this Error be punished with keeping them from all God's public Worship, unless they will sin against their Consciences, or change their Judgments which they cannot change? Yea, suppose some Communion or Ceremony be indifferent, which they mistake for sin, will you forbid all men to worship God, till they have no Sin or Error? Is there any one such a man on earth? Are ⟨p. 292⟩you such your selves? And shall all the World be driven therefore from worshipping God? Little do men know how great a part of the daily Thoughts, even of Orthodox Learned men, are Errors.

Q. 10. Suppose it be Ignorance and Errour in such Ministers, as take it to be a sin against God (yea, a heinous sin) to take all the Oaths, Declarations, Subscriptions, and Covenants imposed for Conformity (while they willingly take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy); and suppose it be an Errour in those People, who think their Souls need better Pastoral Helps than they can have in many Parishes; shall this Errour be punished with keeping them from all God's publick Worship, unless they will sin against their Consciences, or change their Judgments which they cannot change? Yea, suppose some Communion or Ceremony be indifferent, which they mistake for sin, will you forbid all men to worship God, till they have no Sin or Errour? Is there any one such a man on earth? Are ⟨p. 292⟩you such your selves? And shall all the World be driven therefore from worshipping God? Little do men know how great a part of the daily Thoughts, even of Orthodox Learned men, are Errours.

Q. 11. Can there be a more horrid thing in the world, than either to condemn or excommunicate all men who dare not do that which after their best search, they think to be more heinous Sin than they dare name, lest the very naming of it offend, and are desirous to have their Reasons heard; and to make it necessary to Communion, or to their Liberty to worship God, that all Men and Women must know even all indifferent things, to be indifferent or lawful in God's Worship, which men may impose on them? Have not all sober Peaceable Divines agreed, that things necessary for all to know, are few; and that Christian Concord can never be expected on any other terms, than by agreeing in those few, plain, necessary things? And who knoweth not that indifferent things are numberless, as well as small; no mortal man knoweth them all? And if a poor Christian that feareth the Justice of God, do take that Oath, that Covenant, that Declaration or Subscription; yea, or that humane Symbolical Badge of Christianity, or other Ceremony to be a heinous Sin, which others say is a thing indifferent; Must all as Atheists be kept from worshipping God, till they know all these things to be indifferent?