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

M. We justify not our selves, and we leave others to their judge: We have deserved worse from God, than we have suffered. But we must say; 1. That we impose not our words, our books, our forms, our different rites on any, nor would do, by violence, had we power: We put no Oaths, Subscriptions, Covenants, Professions or Practices doubtful upon any: To them that tell us we did so in former times, we still say, let them use no other so but those that used them so, and we are satisfied: I know not six in England of all the present Nonconformists that did so: We are not for Silencing or Imprisoning them, nor forbidding them to worship God: In 1660 we motioned no change of Church Government, which should take down any of their Lordships Maintenance or Episcopal Power, but only Arch-Bishop Ushers Draught of the ancient Episcopacy, and thankfully accepted what the King then granted in his Declaration of Ecclesiastical Affairs. 2. We never craved Preferment of them, but leave to serve Christ and his Church in the Office which we were Vowed to. We certainly knew what impediments hindered the desired Unity, and what divisions must needs follow were they not removed, which by others they might easily have been, without cost or danger. We Pleaded, we Wrote, we Petitioned, and Begged for Peace, even for that which the King had granted: And what could we do more? Since then above twenty years we have laboured as we could, sometime to few, and sometime to more; and have patiently lived upon Charity, and suffered—I need not tell you what.

M. We justifie not our selves, and we leave others to their judge: We have deserved worse from God, than we have suffered. But we must say; 1. That we impose not our words, our books, our forms, our different rites on any, nor would do, by violence, had we power: We put no Oaths, Subscriptions, Convenants, Professions or Practices doubtful upon any: To them that tell us we did so in former times, we still say, let them use no other so but those that used them so, and we are satisfied: I know not six in England of all the present Nonconformists that did so: We are not for Silencing or Imprisoning them, nor forbidding them to worship God: In 1660 we motioned no change of Church Government, which should take down any of their Lordships Maintenance or Episcopal Power, but only Arch-Bishop Vshers Draught of the antient Episcopacy, and thankfully accepted what the King then granted in his Declaration of Ecclesiastical Affairs. 2. We never craved Preferment of them, but leave to serve Christ and his Church in the Office which we were Vowed to. We certainly knew what impediments hindered the desired Unity, and what divisions must needs follow were they not removed, which by others they might easily have been, without cost or danger. We Pleaded, we Wrote, we Petitioned, and Beg'd for Peace, even for that which the King had granted: And what could we do more? Since then above twenty years we have laboured as we could, sometime to few, and sometime to more; and have patiently lived upon Charity, and suffered—I need not tell you what.