Master Edmund Calamies leading case

Mr. Calamy. Truly neither fancy, faction, nor humour makes me not to comply, but merely for fear of offending God: And if after the best means used to satisfy my self; as prayer to God, discourse, study, I was not able to apprehend the lawfulness of what was required; if it be my unhappiness to be in an error, surely men will have no reason to be angry with me in this world, and I hope God vvill pardon me in the next.

Mr. Calamy. Truly neither fancy, faction, nor humor makes me not to comply, but meerly for fear of offending God: And if after the best means used to satisfie my self; as prayer to God, discourse, study, I was not able to apprehend the lawfulness of what was required; if it be my unhappiness to be in an error, surely men will have no reason to be angry vvith me in this vvorld, and I hope God vvill pardon me in the next.

Mr. S•rin. When I was called upon either to conform to the Laws for Uniformity, or to leave my Ministry, I asked of my self two things, Whether I would rather suffer death then use the thing• imposed in a Church professing the foundation, and urging them as things indifferent, not pressing them as binding consciences in themselves, or as needful ⟨p. 11⟩to salvation? And whether the execution of my Ministry (which was pressed upon my conscience with • woe, if I neglected it) should be as dear to me as my life.

Mr. S•rin. When I vvas called upon either to conform to the Lavvs for Uniformity, or to leave my Ministry, I asked of my self tvvo things, Whe•her I would rather suffer death then use the thing• imposed in a Church professing the foundation, and urging them as things indifferent, not pressing them as binding consciences in themselves, or as needful