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

L. It's a wonder to me that all the Bishops, Doctors, and Church of England should publish and impose such a mistake, and never a man of them examine it, and detect it: And yet a greater wonder that the Lords and Bishops and Commons in Parliament should pass and impose it without examination?

M. Neither of them is any wonder to me, considering who the men were, and in what circumstances, and what moved them? No more than that they would rather England were in the case it is in, than to have forborne any of their impositions, called Things indifferent, or than the King's Declaration of Ecclesiastical Affairs, should have healed us. But do you think that such mens Volumes are like to be so infallible in matters of Faith, Doctrine and Right, who no more examine plain Matters of fact, as that all the Clergy may boldly declare Assent and Consent to all contained in, and ••escribed by their book? And that before they ever see it. And did not Convocation, Parliament, and the whole ⟨p. 83⟩Declaring Clergy go one way, and notably Trust some body, And are we not excusable for trying further? Doth this common belief deserve honour and preferment, and our unbelief of such things deserve silencing and ruin?

M. Neither of them is any wonder to me, considering who the men were, and in what circumstances, and what moved them? No more than that they would rather England were in the case it is in, than to have forborn any of their impositions, called Things indifferent, or than the King's Declaration of Ecclesiastical Affairs, should have healed us. But do you think that such mens Volumns are like to be so infallible in matters of Faith, Doctrine and Right, who no more examine plain Matters of fact, as that all the Clergy may boldly declare Assent and Consent to all contained in, and ••escribed by their book? And that before they ever see it. And did not Convocation, Parliament, and the whole ⟨p. 83⟩