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

M. I will tell you what I mean, and then I will hear all that you have to say for it. I. We are all agreed that no sin must be done for any commodity, or on any pretence of good. II. We are agreed that to pretend Gods Service, or Name for our sin is a heinous aggravation: To say, I must do evil to please God, to Preach and to win souls, is Profaneness and Hypocrisy. III. We are agreed that it is worse in a Minister of Christ than in others; because he is bound to be an example to the flock, who are apt to imitate him. IV. It is granted that God is jealous about his worship, and that the profaning of Holy things, and sinning openly in the Sacred Assemblies is, caecris paribus, worse than mere miscarriages in our Conversation. V. Lying is by most acknowledged a great sin, as overthrowing humane credit and converse: But especially in a Preacher, because it will tempt men never to believe him: And to say that we assent and consent, and that ex animo when we do not, is heinous lying. VI. It is granted that man hath not a despotical power of his own understanding, to believe what he will: And that if any of his errors be vicious, vice and error must have better cure than mere commands: And if men could know and believe what they will, they should will to believe nothing but what hath credible evidence, without a carnal bias. VII. It is agreed that all men have error, and therefore that erring men or no men must be tolerated in our Communion; and he that thinks otherwise condemneth himself, and teacheth all men to condemn him. ⟨p. 209⟩VIII. It is granted that it is a very low degree of knowledge that the universality of vulgar Christians do attain, who hardly learn the common Catechism, much less can it be expected that they should all be able to understand all indifferent things to be indifferent, and to be judges of the minutissima. IX. If any errors be tolerable, it's like to be the errors about things indifferent and small. X. St. Paul hath expressly determined the Controversy about loving and receiving such, Rom. 14. & 15. XI.

M. I will tell you what I mean, and then I will hear all that you have to say for it. I. We are all agreed that no sin must be done for any commodity, or on any pretence of good. II. We are agreed that to pretend Gods Service, or Name for our sin is a heinous aggravation: To say, I must do evil to please God, to Preach and to win souls, is Prophaneness and Hypocrisy. III. We are agreed that it is worse in a Minister of Christ than in others; because he is bound to be an example to the flock, who are apt to imitate him. IV. It is granted that God is jealous about his worship, and that the profaning of Holy things, and sinning openly in the Sacred Assemblies is, caecris paribus, worse than meer miscarriages in our Conversation. V. Lying is by most acknowledged a great sin, as overthrowing humane credit and converse: But especially in a Preacher, because it will tempt men never to believe him: And to say that we assent and consent, and that ex animo when we do not, is heinous lying. VI. It is granted that man hath not a despotical power of his own understanding, to believe what he will: And that if any of his errours be vicious, vice and errour must have better cure than meer commands: And if men could know and believe what they will, they should will to believe nothing but what hath credible evidence, without a carnal biass. VII. It is agreed that all men have errour, and therefore that erring men or no men must be tolerated in our Communion; and he that thinks otherwise condemneth himself, and teacheth all men to condemn him.