Excerpt from The Sense of the Court and Parliaments of England, as to the Dissenters, Ever Since the Restoration: With Reflections on the New Mode of Abusing Them in the Pulpit, in a Letter to the Right Honourable the E. Of N

My Lord, H E R E's not a Man in England, who wiflies well to the Confiitution in Church and State, bat he is on all Occafions proud of an Opportunity to exprefs his Veneration of your Lordfhip, who has To eminently deferv'd of both. Into what a Condition wou'd the Furious Zeal of fome Men, the Crafty Ambitioncf Others, and the Iafotioble Awrz'ce of nor a few, have brought us, had not your Lordlhip, and Other Noble Patriots, been at all Times ready to Defend our Civil-and Religious Rights againfi the Inyafions of Sohifm and Fo tz'on, the Boldefi and mof't Dangerous of our Enemies. But the Moderation with which your Lordfhip has a ted as often as you have had a jufl Call to_it, incourages thofe who are Lovers of that Temper, and take it to be an Effe 'c of the highel't Prudence and Virtue, to look on your Lordfhip now as their furefi Hope, that by the Wifdom and Jufiice of your Councils, 'the Rage and Cruelty of ill Men, will once more be con founded.

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