Our Foundation is laid upon Freedom and Liberty of Conscience^ &c. pag. 4. But what! Is Qot this Privilege of Freedom and Liberty which they brag of, as much for Us as for Them? Have not we the same Right with them? And if 20 or 30 Persons, as they are, have a Title to it, Hath not the rest of tlie Church, which makes up, by much, the Majority, the same Title, with more Reason? And why then would they deprive the others of it? Why would they make use of that Liberty,, which they enjoy only by the Bounty and Permission of the Government, under which we live, to oppress their Ministers and Brothers, without Cause, to the great Scandal of the Inhabitants of different nations who surround us, and even of the Jews^ who shew more humanity, in this Case, than they? Why will they make use of it, to give the Law to the whole Church, and to govern it Arbitrarily, as if they were Lords (Tver God's Heritage! See their passage out of the first Epistle St. Peter, Chap. 5. v. 3. Why did they make use of it to shut up the Churcli, as they did, on the 23d of September last, and to deny me the Liberty of performing there the ordinary Service of Prayer, and to deny the rest of the People tlie Liberty of assembling tliemselves there? Why do they make use of it still, with Obstinacy, to deprive above sixty or eighty Tamilies, who think themselves edified by my Ministry, to deprive them, I say, of the Instructions and spiritual Comforts, and, in short, of all the Service of a Minister, wliose Return they demand, and who belongs to them, as well as to the others, and whom they can Re-estate when they please?