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

L. Obj. II. They say you make a Schism and Stir for mere tristes and things indifferent, viz. Ceremonies and Liturgy; confessing that they are not unlawful.

L. Obj. II. They say you make a Schism and Stir for meer tristes and things indifferent, viz. Ceremonies and Liturgy; confessing that they are not unlawful.

M. 1. And what if they say that we are Turks or Heathens, or have Horns and are Brutes, what remedy have we? To their honour be it spoken, we would not hope to confute them. 2. Do you not know that so far are we from this, that even under the old easier Impositions, we protested to the Bishops in our Petitions for Peace, That we would yield to any thing but Sin against God, and we endeavoured to prove Conformity sinful? And do they well agree with themselves, when Dr. Stilling fleet saith, that I would represent Conformity such as should make them seem a company of Perjured Villains? 3. I pray you tell me, whether the 52. Points now opened by me, be nothing but Liturgy and Ceremonies, and whether you take them all to be things indifferent. Is it not an odd sort of Accusers that we have, that sometimes say we suspect the Nation of common Perjury, and the Church of Subverting, Corruption, and overthrow of Discipline, and Excommunicating Christs Faithful Servants; and shortly after say, We Dissent only about things Indifferent? God have mercy on those miserably Souls that take such things for Indifferent. 4. Who is it troubles the Land with their things Indifferent? Is it we? Did we devise them? Do we impose them on any, ⟨p. 214⟩and say, Use our things indifferent, or we will Silence you, or Excommunicate you, and lay you in Jail with Rogues? Be such things imposed as Indifferent?

M. 1. And what if they say that we are Turks or Heathens, or have Horns and are Brutes, what remedy have we? To their honour be it spoken, we would not hope to confute them. 2. Do you not know that so far are we from this, that even under the old easier Impositions, we protested to the Bishops in our Petitions for Peace, That we would yield to any thing but Sin against God, and we endeavoured to prove Conformity sinful? And do they well agree with themselves, when Dr. Stilling fleet saith, that I would represent Conformity such as should make them seem a company of Perjur'd Villains? 3. I pray you tell me, whether the 52. Points now opened by me, be nothing but Liturgy and Ceremonies, and whether you take them all to be things indifferent. Is it not an odd sort of Accusers that we have, that sometimes say we suspect the Nation of common Perjury, and the Church of Subverting, Corruption, and overthrow of Discipline, and Excommunicating Christs Faithful Servants; and shortly after say, We Dissent only about things Indifferent? God have mercy on those miserably Souls that take such things for Indifferent. 4. Who is it troubles the Land with their things Indifferent? Is it we? Did we devise them? Do we impose them on any,