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

M. No; 1. A Mans Interest in, and power over his Wife and Children is earlier and greater than a Patrons is. It is natural, and by a Law, which no Men have power to abrogate: Self-government and Family-government are antecedent to Princes or States Government, and they have no right to dissolve it. 2. I shall gain or lose more by the welfare or misery of my Family than the Patron will. 3. Nature hath given me a greater Love to Wife and Children, and bound me to a greater care for them, than it hath done a Patron. 4. I know them better, and therefore know what they need, and what Teacher and Communion is fit for them, better than a Patron that never saw them or me. 5. Supposing that I am allowed to choose my own Pastor and Communion, it will be inconsistent with Family-government, that my Wife, Children and Servants be forced to go to another place, where I can have no account of them what they do, and how they behave themselves. 6. If no Man may justly choose for my Children a Tutor, a Trade, a Physician, or Diet, or Clothing, rather than my self, (much less a worse when I choose a better;) nor may impose Husbands or Wives on them, much less may any choose for them against my will and choice, an Office on which their Salvation is so specially concerned.

M. No; 1. A Mans Interest in, and power over his Wife and Children is earlier and greater than a Patrons is. It is natural, and by a Law, which no Men have power to abrogate: Self-government and Family-government are antecedent to Princes or States Government, and they have no right to dissolve it. 2. I shall gain or lose more by the welfare or misery of my Family than the Patron will. 3. Nature hath given me a greater Love to Wife and Children, and bound me to a greater care for them, than it hath done a Patron. 4. I know them better, and therefore know what they need, and what Teacher and Communion is fit for them, better than a Patron that never saw them or me. 5. Supposing that I am allowed to chuse my own Pastor and Communion, it will be inconsistent with Family-government, that my Wife, Children and Servants be forced to go to another place, where I can have no account of them what they do, and how they behave themselves. 6. If no Man may justly chuse for my Children a Tutor, a Trade, a Physician, or Diet, or Cloathing, rather than my self, (much less a worse when I chuse a better;) nor may impose Husbands or Wives on them, much less may any chuse for them against my will and choice, an Office on which their Salvation is so specially concerned.