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

58. If we deserve to be cast out of Church and Kingdom, in this case of nonconformity to the present Impositions, it is because we are either weak or Ignorant or wicked (for nature hath no other fault.) And on condition that the Diocesans will effectually provide, that none more weak, more ignorant, or more wicked shall be tolerated in Church and Kingdom when we are gone, and no detriment befall his Majesties dominions by the diminution of his Subjects, we here profess to the world, our joyful consent to be silenced and banished. And I am so far from speaking this in overvaluing of my self, that I profess that it is my brethren that I now intend: (Though he is a fool that taketh himself to be no wiser than a stark fool; And it's like they that deride our self-abasing confessions, will not expect that we should belie ourselves, or equal the up right with the hypocrite). And I tell posterity, if this age will not hear, that though I am accounted one of the greatest bewailers and reprovers of the sins of the Nonconformists, Ministers and people, and no flatterer of either of them, that I do verily believe [that under all the Heavens of God, there is no one party, of Ministers and people, more able, holy, wise and faithful, than those that are now silenced and reproached as Puritans in his Majesties Dominions; And that they are the glory of the Churches, and of the King and his Kingdoms; and such as no other Prince in all the world is equally blest with.] Let malice and ignorance and interest say its worst, I have nothing that I know of to make me partial to them, but have born as many contradictions from them as most men living; yet this is my unfeigned testimony upon my long acquaintance with them, which I leave to posterity as a dying man.

58. If we deserve to be cast out of Church and Kingdom, in this case of nonconformity to the present Impositions, it is because we are either weak or Ignorant or wicked (for nature hath no other fault.) And on condition that the Diocesans will effectually provide, that none more weak, more ignorant, or more wicked shall be tolerated in Church and Kingdom when we are gone, and no detriment befall his Majesties dominions by the diminution of his Subjects, we here profess to the world, our joyful consent to be silenced and banished. And I am so far from speaking this in overvaluing of my self, that I profess that it is my brethren that I now intend: (Though he is a fool that taketh himself to be no wiser than a stark fool; And it's like they that deride our self-abasing consessions, will not expect that we should belie ourselves, or equal the up right with the hypocrite). And I tell posterity, if this age will not hear, that though I am accounted one of the greatest bewailers and reprovers of the sins of the Nonconformists, Ministers and people, and no flatterer of either of them, that I do verily believe [that under all the Heavens of God, there is no one party, of Ministers and people, more able, holy, wise and faithful, than those that are now silenced and reproached as Puritans in his Majesties Dominions; And that they are the glory of the Churches, and of the King and his Kingdoms; and such as no other Prince in all the world is equally blest with.] Let malice and ignorance and interest say its worst, I have nothing that I know of to make me partial to them, but have born as many contradictions from them as most men living; yet this is my unfeigned testimony upon my long acquaintance with them, which I leave to posterity as a dying man.