. A Vindication of the Dissenters : in answer to Dr. William Nichols's Defence of the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England : in three parts. er afts : If thehigh Eflates of the kingdom were willing to give away thepeople*s rights and privileges^ was it reafonable to txpeB thata, company of helplefs Priefls Jhould defend them ? Theyfliould have defended them, as our not lefs helplefsMinlfters did, who refusd to fubfcribe the dodrine;and as they afterwards defended them themfelves, inthe reign of King ^ames II. Tis one thinw not to beable to defend the rights and privileges of the pe
. A Vindication of the Dissenters : in answer to Dr. William Nichols's Defence of the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England : in three parts. er afts : If thehigh Eflates of the kingdom were willing to give away thepeople*s rights and privileges^ was it reafonable to txpeB thata, company of helplefs Priefls Jhould defend them ? Theyfliould have defended them, as our not lefs helplefsMinlfters did, who refusd to fubfcribe the dodrine;and as they afterwards defended them themfelves, inthe reign of King ^ames II. Tis one thinw not to beable to defend the rights and privileges of the people,and another perfidioufly to betray them. The Parlia-ment hearkend to the advice and defire of the Clergy> m Chap. XIII. ;f^^ DI s s E N T E R s. 37 in making that, and feveral other laws ; and are nowworthily rewarded for their complaifance: for the Cler-gy, to excufe themfelves, now throw all the blameupon them. Thus I have confiderd all in this Part, which Ithink is material in our controverfy. I fhall next^onfider his other Part; wherein we fhall fee howflout a defence he makes of the Hierarchy and Cere-monies of the Church of Enqlfid,. Cc 3
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