Of national churches their description, institution, use, preservation, danger, maladies and cure, partly applied…

And the Scots would not help them, unless the Parliament would engage in the Scots Covenant against the English Prelacy, which proved a sinful snare of Division to all the Land. And the War ending in the Parliaments Conquest, and they conquered again and cast out by their own Army, many Divines of the Diocesan Judgment besides the scandalous were cast out: And the Restored Parliament recalling K. Charles II. (with his Clergy) the exasperated came back with a resolution of revenge, and the grand design of some was to begin where Laud left, and to extirpate Puritans, and to that end to get all power in Church and Universities, into the hands of the greatest Enemies of the Nonconformists, and to get Laws of doubled cruelty made accordingly to root them out; which so far prospered, that Universities and Ministry are sufficiently disposed into a contempt and opposition to the Nonconformists; who are too ready to think that they and their well-wishers are (though not the only serious Religious part of the Land, yet the main body of them many to one; and that the main body of the hot Adherents to their Adversaries, are the generality of the sensual, worldly, and profane; who use their Ceremonies as Solomon's Whore did her Sacrifices ⟨p. 64⟩and Vows, to encourage her to take her fill of Love till morning.

And the Scots would not help them, unless the Parliament would engage in the Scots Covenant against the English Prelacy, which proved a sinful snare of Division to all the Land. And the War ending in the Parliaments Conquest, and they conquered again and cast out by their own Army, many Divines of the Diocesan Judgment besides the scandalous were cast out: And the Restored Parliament recalling K. Charles II. (with his Clergy) the exasperated came back with a resolution of revenge, and the grand design of some was to begin where Laud left, and to extirpate Puritans, and to that end to get all power in Church and Universities, into the hands of the greatest Enemies of the Nonconformists, and to get Laws of doubled cruelty made accordingly to root them out; which so far prospered, that Universities and Ministry are sufficiently disposed into a contempt and opposition to the Nonconformists; who are too ready to think that they and their well-wishers are (though not the only serious Religious part of the Land, yet the main body of them many to one; and that the main body of the hot Adherents to their Adversaries, are the generality of the sensual, wordly, and profane; who use their Ceremonies as Solomon's Whore did her Sacrifices