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

And the root of all this mans inhumanity is his Epicurean principles of Philosophy about God and […], supposing God to be but the Eternal necessary necess•••ing first cause of all things and motions, as the Sun is o[…] ••ght and heat, who can do no more, nor less than he doth, moving the world as a Clock or Watch by mere invariable necessity, that never did or can do a miracle, or alter the necessitating course of nature: And that man hath no self determining free-will at all, but is moved as necessarily as an Engine; And that God is no governor, nor hath no Laws (but mens) nor no Justice, nor Mercy, these being not to be attributed to him, but only natural motion or necessitation; And that he that lieth, murdereth, stealeth, rebelleth is equally moved to it by God, as he that speaketh truth, and doth all that is just and good: and therefore it is but our narrow minds and ignorance, that taketh one thing to be better or worse than another, or to be sin or duty, save in respect to our commodity and the will of the strongest.

And the root of all this mans inhumanity is his Epicurean principles of Philosophy about God and 〈…〉, supposing God to be but the Eternal necessary necess•••ing first cause of all things and motions, as the Sun is o〈…〉 ••ght and heat, who can do no more, nor less than he doth, moving the world as a Clock or Watch by meer invariable necessity, that never did or can do a miracle, or alter the necessitating course of nature: And that man hath no self determining free-will at all, but is moved as necessarily as an Engine; And that God is no governour, nor hath no Laws (but mens) nor no Justice, nor Mercy, these being not to be attributed to him, but only natural motion or necessitation; And that he that lyeth, murdereth, stealeth, rebelleth is equally moved to it by God, as he that speaketh truth, and doth all that is just and good: and therefore it is but our narrow minds and ignorance, that taketh one thing to be better or worse than another, or to be sin or duty, save in respect to our commodity and the will of the strongest.