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

62. They that by thrusting out the Orthodox and sober Ministers and private Christians equally with the heretical and intolerable, will tell them when they desire to be restored, that it's they that would bring in an Universal Toleration of all the intolerable, do play so naked a game, that it's easily understood, though it must be silently and patiently endured: And if the Diocesans cannot tolerate our Preaching, we will quietly tolerate their Per—

62. They that by thrusting out the Orthodox and sober Ministers and private Christians equally with the heretical and intolerable, will tell them when they desire to be restored, that it's they that would bring in an Vniversal Toleration of all the intolerable, do play so naked a game, that it's easily understood, though it must be silently and patiently endured: And if the Diocesans cannot tolerate our Preaching, we will quietly tolerate their Per—

63. We thought that Bishop Taylor went too far in his Book for Liberty of Prophesying, but tempor a mutantur, and Conformists can change: we think it fit that the Magistrate go further in Restraining than in Constraining: And that he should hinder heretics and blasphemers from reproaching the truth, and seducing souls; Yea hinder any sin in the world; as far as he can do it without greater hurt than the good will compensate. And as the Church must not suffer the doctrine of the Nicolaitans which Christ hateth, nor the woman Jezebel to teach and seduce the people to filthiness, Idolatry, &c. and as Pastors must stop such mouths with sacred argument, and shame them by the convincing light of truth; so Magistrates in their places must hinder them so far, as that by pulling up the Tares, they be sure that they pull not up the wheat also.

63. We thought that Bishop Taylor went too far in his Book for Liberty of Prophesying, but tempor a mutantur, and Conformists can change: we think it fit that the Magistrate go further in Restraining than in Constraining: And that he should hinder hereticks and blasphemers from reproaching the truth, and seducing souls; Yea hinder any sin in the world; as far as he can do it without greater hurt than the good will compensate. And as the Church must not suffer the doctrine of the Nicolaitans which Christ hateth, nor the woman Jesabel to teach and seduce the people to filthiness, Idolatry, &c. and as Pastors must stop such mouths with sacred argument, and shame them by the convincing light of truth; so Magistrates in their places must hinder them so far, as that by pulling up the Tares, they be sure that they pull not up the wheat also.