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

L. III. They say you hold your Opinions in obstinate wilfulness, and have no Reason to give for them, and therefore are not to be born with as weak Brethren.

M. So said the Arians of the Orthodox, and the Heathens of the Christians. It's a fine World when ignorant ungodly Lads are heard tell such men as were Dr. Reignolds, John Fox, Amesius, Blondel, Dailee, Chamier, &c. We can't allow you so much as the esteem of weak Brethren: I do not think but some of their School boys might soon be taught by a Bishop to say thus to their Masters. 2. But do all the young Clergy that can talk thus, show us by any good evidence, that in other things they are so much Wiser & Learneder than the Dissenters? Are they all of greater Learning than John Reignolds, or better Hebricians than Hugh Broughton, or better Logicians than Sadeel, or Ramus, or Sohnius, or of greater Reading than Blondel, &c. 3. Do they know us better than we our selves? We offer our Oaths that we hold what we do by the Cogency of appearing Evidence, and are willing to know the truth. 4. Have I here and elsewhere given no Reasons for our Dissent? Have they answered my Treatise of Episcopacy, my First and Second Plea for Peace, my Apology, my Treatise of the Terms of Church-Concord, or any one thing that I have written for our Cause, save two or three by disputes, which when I have vindicated, they have let fall the Disceptation? What front have these men then that say we Dissent without giving Reason for it? But you know how long the Press was shut against our Writings; and yet then they that would not endure us to Speak, accused us for being Silent.

M. So said the Arians of the Orthodox, and the Heathens of the Christians. It's a fine World when ignorant ungodly Lads are heard tell such men as were Dr. Reignolds, Iohn Fox, Amesius, Blondel, Dailee, Chamier, &c. We can't allow you so much as the esteem of weak Brethren: I do not think but some of their School boys might soon be taught by a Bishop to say thus to their Masters. 2. But do all the young Clergy that can talk thus, shew us by any good evidence, that in other things they are so much Wiser & Learneder than the Dissenters? Are they all of greater Learning than Iohn Reignolds, or better Hebricians than Hugh Broughton, or better Logicians than Sadeel, or Ramus, or Sohnius, or of greater Reading than Blondel, &c. 3. Do they know us better than we our selves? We offer our Oaths that we hold what we do by the Cogency of appearing Evidence, and are willing to know the truth. 4. Have I here and elsewhere given no Reasons for our Dissent? Have they answered my Treatise of Episcopacy, my First and Second Plea for Peace, my Apology, my Treatise of the Terms of Church-Concord, or any one thing that I have written for our Cause, save two or three by disputes, which when I have vindicated, they have let fall the Disceptation? What front have these men then that say we Dissent without giving Reason for it? But you know how long the Press was shut against our Writings; and yet then they that would not endure us to Speak, accused us for being Silent.