The Case of the Protestant dissenters represented and argued

We cannot but expect from English-men, that they be just and true. We hope not to be the only instances, whereby the Anglica fides, and the Punica, shall be thought all one.

But if we who have constantly desired, and, as we have had opportunity, endeavoured the saving of the Nation, must however be ruined, not to greaten (one hair) the Wealth and Dignity, but only to gratify the humour of them who would yet destroy it; we, who are competently inured to sufferings, shall through God's Mercy be again enabled to endure. But he that sits in the Heavens will, in his own time, judge our Cause, and we will wait his Pleasure; and, we hope, suffer all that can be inflicted, rather than betray the Cause of Reformed Christianity in the World.

But if we who have constantly desired, and, as we have had opportunity, endeavour'd the saving of the Nation, must however be ruin'd, not to greaten (one hair) the Wealth and Dignity, but only to gratify the humour of them who would yet destroy it; we, who are competently inured to sufferings, shall through God's Mercy be again enabled to endure. But he that sits in the Heavens will, in his own time, judge our Cause, and we will wait his Pleasure; and, we hope, suffer all that can be inflicted, rather than betray the Cause of Reformed Christianity in the World.

But our Affairs are in the hands of Men of Worth and Honour, who apprehend how little grateful a Name they should leave to posterity, or obtain now with good men of any persuasion, if under a pretence of kindness to us, they should now repeat the Arts of ill men in an ill time. Great minds will think it beneath them, to sport themselves with their own cunning in deceiving other men, which were really in the present case too thin not to be seen through, and may be the easy attainment of any Man, that hath enough of opportunity, and integrity little enough for such purposes. And 'tis as much too gross to endeavour to abuse the Authority of a Nation, by going about to make that stoop to so mean a thing, as to make a show of intending what they resolve to their uttermost shall never be.