Indulgence and toleration considered in a letter unto a person of honour

And how foolish, senseless, and unbecoming of Men, would any other Thoughts be? To think, That Men who have given this Evidence at least, That they are such as exercise A Good Conscience towards God and Others, in that they have suffered for it, and are ready yet farther so to do, should not despise and contemn all suggestions of unpeaceable Dispositions, or should suppose that they have any Community of Interest with such as being not concerned in Conscience with them; at least not so far as to evidence it to be their Chief and Principal Interest, as theirs it is; or to have any Inclination to the Disturbance of the Public Tranquility, wherein all their Desires and Aims are secured; Is to judge by such Imaginations of Folly, Madness and Wickedness, as Those who use these Pretences, would be loth to be judged by; although They have not given that Testimony of Their Respects unto Conscience, which the Others have done.

And how foolish, senceless, and unbecoming of Men, would any other Thoughts be? To think, That Men who have given this Evidence at least, That they are such as exercise A Good Conscience towards God and Others, in that they have suffered for it, and are ready yet farther so to do, should not despise and contemn all suggestions of unpeaceable Dispositions, or should suppose that they have any Community of Interest with such as being not concerned in Conscience with them; at least not so far as to evidence it to be their Chief and Principal Interest, as theirs it is; or to have any Inclination to the Disturbance of the Publique Tranquility, wherein all their Desires and Aims are secured; Is to judge by such Imaginations of Folly, Madness and Wickedness, as Those who use these Pretences, would be loth to be judged by; although They have not given that Testimony of Their Respects unto Conscience, which the Others have done.

And hereby, whereas the Parliament have been necessitated through the Exigence of the public Affairs, to engage the Nation in payments not passed through without difficulty, they will, as was said, put a real and effectual Obligation upon great multitudes of Men, without the least semblance of Disadvantage unto any others.

And hereby, whereas the Parliament have been necessitated through the Exigence of the publique Affairs, to engage the Nation in payments not passed through without difficulty, they will, as was said, put a real and effectual Obligation upon great multitudes of Men, without the least semblance of Disadvantage unto any others.