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

Q 18. Is it not an unmanly sort of impudence in them, that many years persuade the world, that those same men make Schisms, by forbearing only such things as they confess to be no sin, who have twenty years ago Protested, that nothing but sinning is refused by them, and did then give in a Catalogue of several sins which they undertook to prove such? And should those same men that have read, or may do The King's Gracious Declaration about Ecclesiastical Affairs, 1660. and the London Ministers printed Thanks-giving for it, and the many late Books, in which we have told men what it is which we dare not conform to; I say, should these still take on them, that they cannot know it, and call out still, [What is it that you stick at? And what is it that would satisfy you?] Yea, those that cannot bear that we should tell them.

Q 18. Is it not an unmanly sort of impudence in them, that many years perswade the world, that those same men make Schisms, by forbearing only such things as they confess to be no sin, who have twenty years ago Protested, that nothing but sinning is refused by them, and did then give in a Catalogue of several sins which they undertook to prove such? And should those same men that have read, or may do The King's Gracious Declaration about Ecclesiastical Affairs, 1660. and the London Ministers printed Thanks-giving for it, and the many late Books, in which we have told men what it is which we dare not conform to; I say, should these still take on them, that they cannot know it, and call out still, [What is it that you stick at? And what is it that would satisfy you?] Yea, those that cannot bear that we should tell them.

Q. 19. Do you think that the King who then past that Declaration (in which the Non-Conformists who sought it with thankfulness acquiesced, as in terms of happy Concord) and the House of Commons who gave him thanks, or the Bishops and Clergy who after rejected it, and procured the new Act of Uniformity and such other, did take the way to have United Protestants, and to have prevented our present sad divisions?

Q. 19. Do you think that the King who then past that Declaration (in which the Non-Conformists who sought it with thankfulness acquiesc't, as in terms of happy Concord) and the House of Commons who gave him thanks, or the Bishops and Clergy who after rejected it, and procured the new Act of Uniformity and such other, did take the way to have United Protestants, and to have prevented our present sad divisions?