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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 Pa••sts than Presbyterians, and that they would […] soon be Turks as Papists; and who surrendered themselves as mere Tools to a Po••sh Party, that thought to grow great upon […] Ruins, of both the Pa•ties 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, ⟨p. 40⟩which at last had broke up the Congregations of them that had perfected the Testimony to the Kingly Office of th• Lord Jesus, than Celebrating a Thanksgiving for it, indeed caused the Dissenters […] Accept of Liberty, tho' upon some Ter which they approved not. You are not ignorant that we then told you, There wou quickly come an Earthquake that should cary on that Liberty to more perfection; an behold it is now done in a Parliamenta Way! Blessed be God, that Protestants a come to a better understanding of the true Interest! May the Apples of Strife mong them now be removed!