That since they have found the way to my House, after they had passed this unjust sentence against me (of which I complain) to declare it to me in my face, why did they not take the same Method before they passed the same, to read it to me, or to send me, at least, those Papers which they had prepared to Condemn me, in order that I might have been able to defend myself, &c ?

" They cannot be forgetful (they say afterwards) " of that "most gracious Declaration or Saying of our most gracious " Sovereign Lord King George, upon his Accession to the Throne " of Great Britain, That the Indulgence and Toleration granted by " Law to Scrupulous Consciences was no ways inconsistent with the " Civil §• Religious Constitution of the Kingdom, ^c." Wliat shall I answer to this impertinent and Sycophantick Discourse ]

Vltra sauromatasfugere hinc libet et glacialem Oceanum, &c. Juven. sat. 2.

Pray, What has the Indulgence and Toleration granted by Law to Scrupulous Consciences in common, with the Persecution and Oppression of which I and my Subscribers complain ? What Scruple of Conscience can perswade them to depose or deprive their own Minister, and to takeaway his Living, without Reason, without the least cause or colour of Justice, for a Bickering, for a thing of nought, and that without the Authority and Power

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they should have for what they do ? What scrupulous Conscience can perswade them to deprive the Congregation who think (as I have said) themselves Edified by my Ministry, of the Pastoral Cares and Service of a Minister who belongs to them, whom they have called here from Europe, and have made perpetual Pastor of the Church ? We know that the Indulgence and Toleration granted by Law to scrupulous Consciences, is no ways incmisistcnt with the Civil and Religious Constitution of the Kingdom.