The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…

That it may appear that we refuse not the Corporation Oath and Declaration, the Oxford Oath, or the subscription required by the Act of Uniformity, out of any disloyalty or ill design, we offer to declare, subscribe, profess and promise as followeth.

THat it may appear that we refuse not the Corporation Oath and Declaration, the Oxford Oath, or the subscription required by the Act of Uniformity, out of any disloyalty or ill design, we offer to declare, subscribe, profess and promise as followeth.

I. I do unfeignedly Assent and Consent to every word of God in the sacred Scripture, which describeth the Power of Kings, or other Governors, and which describeth or commandeth the Subjects duty to their governors, and which forbiddeth rebellion, or any other sin against them.

I. I do unfeignedly Assent and Consent to every word of God in the sacred Scripture, which describeth the Power of Kings, or other Governours, and which describeth or commandeth the Subjects duty to their governours, and which forbiddeth rebellion, or any other sin against them.

II. Though I take not General Councils for the Rule of my faith or obedience,¹ yet having with some diligence perused the Decrees of those that are so called, I find not in any of them any more Power ascribed to Kings or other civil Governors, than I do willingly subscribe to and acknowledge; excepting the powers which the Papal King of Rome doth arrogate to himself, or pretend to give to others, or place in them as his executioners.

II. Though I take not General Councils for the Rule of my faith or obedience,