A44672:32
The Case of the Protestant dissenters represented and argued
London : s.n., 1689
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Nor can any Malice deny, or Ignorance of observing Englishmen overlook this plain matter of Fact: After the Dissolution of that beforementioned Parliament, Dissenters were much caressed, and endeavoured to be drawn into a Subserviency to the Court-designs, especially in the Election of after Parliaments. Notwithstanding which, they every where so entirely and unanimously fell in with the sober Part of the Nation in the Choice of such Persons for the three Parliaments that next succeeded (two held at Westminster, and that at Oxford) as it was known would, and who did most generously Assert the Liberties of the Nation, and the Protestant Religion. Which alone (and not our mere dissent from the Church of England in Matters of Religion, wherein Charles II. was ⟨p. 3⟩sufficiently known to be a Prince of great indifferency) drew upon us, soon after the Dissolution of the last of those Parliaments, that dreadful Storm of Persecution that destroyed not a small Number of Lives in Goals, and ruined Multitudes of Families.
Nor can any Malice deny, or Ignorance of observing Englishmen overlook this plain matter of Fact: After the Dissolution of that beforementioned Parliament, Dissenters were much caress'd, and endeavour'd to be drawn into a Subserviency to the Court-designs, especially in the Election of after Parliaments. Notwithstanding which, they every where so entirely and unanimously fell in with the sober Part of the Nation in the Choice of such Persons for the three Parliaments that next succeeded (two held at Westminster, and that at Oxford) as it was known would, and who did most generously Assert the Liberties of the Nation, and the Protestant Religion. VVhich alone (and not our meer dissent from the Church of England in Matters of Religion, wherein Charles II. was ⟨p. 3⟩sufficiently known to be a Prince of great indifferency) drew upon us, soon after the Dissolution of the last of those Parliaments, that dreadful Storm of Persecution that destroy'd not a small Number of Lives in Goals, and ruin'd Multitudes of Families.