The nonconformists advocate

What shall all your generous studies, and great acquirements of learning, for which ye are renowned and dignified, teach you no other lesson, but inhiare pecuniae to quest after money, quarry upon the dross and dung of this world, and load your selves with thick clay! Surely you understand higher matters. The Sons of the earth, who never knew more than the cart and plough, can attain to this excellency, almost as well as your selves: conformity therefore here is a most debasing deformity, which ye ought to reject with an holy haughtiness of disdain. And the rather, because herein also ye are very injurious and grievous Oppressors. Of whom? Even of your fellow brethren, the Tribe of Levi; not suffering them to have any lot, share, and portion with you in the good things of the Church, against all right and equity. Ye grasp and run away with all, and they can get nothing to their great discouragement. How many sad complaints have these ears of mine heard against Pluralities, from the mouths of those that are as conforming, and some of them as meriting as your selves! They wait and wait till their hearts ache, even as the impotent and lame at the Pool of Bethesda, for the stirring of the waters, I mean for an opportunity of preferment, ⟨p. 80⟩but in vain; for no sooner can the blessed Angel appear, any such place known to be vacant, but another instantly steppeth in before them, and bereaves them of their hope. Some famed Doctor or Court-favourite like the sharp eyed Eagle seeth the prey afar of, ¹trusseth it in his talons, and swiftly hurries it away to his former heap; while these poor wretches lie languishing with vexing despair in their continual disappointments. The heart of man is deceitful, yet surely if I can know any thing by my self, were I in your stead, I would have so much goodness and kindness, for those of mine own coat and function, as to be willing they should live by me, yea, and live comfortably upon the altar as well as my self, according to the mind and appointment of the first Donor in the case. I would not be an Oppressor but a comforter unto them, seeking by all good ways and means to keep them up in heart and countenance, and strengthen their hands in the work before them. But to return to our purpose. What signal service do such great Doctors, and Pluralists perform unto God and his Church?

What shall all your generous studies, and great acquirements of learning, for which ye are renowned and dignified, teach you no other lesson, but inhiare pecuniae to quest after mony, quarry upon the dross and dung of this world, and load your selves with thick clay! Surely you understand higher matters. The Sons of the earth, who never knew more than the cart and plough, can attain to this excellency, almost as well as your selves: conformity therefore here is a most debasing deformity, which ye ought to reject with an holy haughtiness of disdain. And the rather, because herein also ye are very injurious and grievous Oppressours. Of whom? Even of your fellow brethren, the Tribe of Levi; not suffering them to have any lot, share, and portion with you in the good things of the Church, against all right and equity. Ye grasp and run away with all, and they can get nothing to their great discouragement. How many sad complaints have these ears of mine heard against Pluralities, from the mouths of those that are as conforming, and some of them as meriting as your selves! They wait and wait till their hearts ake, even as the impotent and lame at the Pool of Bethesda, for the stirring of the waters, I mean for an opportunity of preferment,