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Excerpt from The History of the Puritans, or Protestant Non-Conformists, From the Reformation to the Death of Queen Elizabeth, Vol. 1 of 4: With an Account of Their Principles; Their Attempts for a Further Reformation in the Church; Their Sufferings; And the Lives and Characters of Their Principal Divines
The reputation of the Church of England has been very much advanced of late years, by the fufpenfion of the penal laws, and the legal indulgenceg Granted to pro teflant dienters. Long experience has taught us, that uniformity 1n doctrine and worfhip, enforced by pe nal laws, is not the way to the-church's peace; that there may be a feparation from a true church without {chifm and (chitin within a church without feparati on; that the indulgence granted by law to protei'tant non-conformif'ts, which has now fubfified above forty years, has not been prejudicial to church or flate, but rather advantageous to both; for the revenues of the eflablilh d church have not been leffen' d 1, a number of poor have been maintained by the diiienters, which mull: otherwife have come to the parifh; the feparation has kept up an emulation among the clergy quicken' d.
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