The wonderful works of God commemorated praises bespoke for the God of heaven in…

But there is a further matter for our Praises which has followed hereupon; and […] that are a Country of Nonconformists, ma• not pass it by unmentioned.

But there is a further matter for our Pra•ses which has followed hereupon; and 〈…〉 that are a Countrey of Nonconformists, ma• not pass it by unmentioned.

It is, The Repeal of those Laws which the Protestant Dissenters wer• long Harassed with.

It is well-known, That those whose Consciences did not allow them, to worship Go• in some Ways and Modes then by Law Established, were not many years ago, Persecuted with a violence, to be abhorred by a• sober Men. It is well known that Five an• Twenty Hundred Faithful Ministers of th• Gospel, were Silenced in one Black Day because they could not comply with some ⟨p. 93⟩things, by themselves justly counted, Sinful, but by the Imposers confessed Indifferent. And it is affirmed, That by a modest Calculation, this Persecution procured the untimely Death of Three Thousand Nonconformists, by Imprisonment in Noisome Goals, and the Ruin of Threescore Thousand Families, within five and twenty years. As the Dissenters are far from charging their Sufferings upon all that the Church of England •n its National Constitution acknowledges or her Sons; for we have seen the most Learned and Worthy Members of that Church make their public Pleas for the Nonconformists, and Boldly beg for Moderation to them; and advance this Assertion, That or every man to worship God according to his Conviction, is an Essential Right of Humane Nature; and we have Learnt, That the late persecutors were mostly a Knot of Ill men ho professed, that they had rather be Pasts than Presbyterians, and that they would […] soon be Turks as Papists; and who surrendered themselves as mere Tools to a Posh Party, that thought to grow great upon […] Ruins, of both the Paties whom they […] set together by the Ears: So, I hope, the dissenters will now forgive and forget the most inhumane Injuries that they have ever […] sustained. The severity of that Persecution,