The Case of the Protestant dissenters represented and argued

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.

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 easie 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 shew of intending what they resolve to their uttermost shall never be.

But some may think, by Concessions to us, the Church of England will be ruined, and a great advantage be given to the bringing in of Popery.

But some may think, by Concessions to us, the Church of England will be ruin'd, and a great advantage be given to the bringing in of Popery.