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

Et in summa, qui totis viribus ad statum Reip. & Leges regni sundamentales mutandas vel evertendas, quantum in ipso est, enititur.

Pag. 160. [5. Tamdiu resistendum est, quamdiu durat tyrannus, quousque verbis, facto, dolo, vel arte oppugnat Remp. & pacto inito contraria facit, loquitur, vel agit: adeo ut ejusmodi tyrannum ab officio removere, administration demandata privare, immo etiam si aliter contra vim se defendere non possunt, interficere, & alium in ejus locum substituere possint. See also Balt. Willius Politics pag. 591, 592. more plainly to that purpose. If such as this and Grotius his doctrine of resistance de jure belli, and Mr. George Lawsons a Conformist in his Ecclesiastical Polit. be compared with the Principles which only are asserted in this Account, and held by us Nonconformists, me thinks the accusers of our principles should repent.

Pag. 160. [5. Tamdiu resistendum est, quamdiu durat tyrannus, quousque verbis, facto, dolo, vel arte oppugnat Remp. & pacto inito contraria facit, loquitur, vel agit: adeo ut ejusmodi tyrannum ab officio removere, administratione demandata privare, immo etiam si aliter contra vim se defendere non possunt, interficere, & alium in ejus locum substituere possint. See also Balt. Willius Politicks pag. 591, 592. more plainly to that purpose. If such as this and Grotius his doctrine of resistance de jure belli, and Mr. George Lawsons a Conformist in his Ecclesiastical Polit. be compared with the Principles which only are asserted in this Account, and held by us Nonconformists, me thinks the accusers of our principles should repent.

I wonder that Hobbs de cive should be magnified by such Frenchmen as Gassendus, Sorberius and Mersennus: But it seems some French Philosophers (and Prelates too) are looser in their principles of policy and Loyalty than we are.