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We
are
not
averse
to
the
Publishing
of
the
Declaration
,
for
want
of
due
Tenderness
towards
Dissenters
,
with
relation
to
whom
we
shall
be
willing
to
come
to
such
a
Temper
as
shall
be
thought
fit
,
when
the
matter
comes
to
be
considered
,
and
setled
in
Parliament
and
Convocation
.
But
the
Declaration
being
founded
upon
such
a
Dispencing
Power
,
as
may
at
pleasure
set
aside
all
Laws
Ecclesiastical
and
Civil
,
appears
to
us
Illegal
,
and
did
so
to
the
Parliament
in
1672.
And
it
is
a
Point
of
such
great
Consequence
,
that
we
cannot
make
our selves
Parties
to
it
,
so
far
as
the
reading
of
it
in
the
Church
in
the
time
of
Divine
Service
will
amount
to
.
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We
,
who
without
any
Bowels
of
tenderness
,
have
hitherto
exercised
many
inhuman
Cruelties
upon
Dissenters
,
observing
the
favorable
regard
that
the
Government
has
now
toward
them
,
do
promise
,
that
We
will
hereafter
come
to
such
a
Temper
in
those
Matters
,
as
shall
be
setled
by
our Selves
in
Convocation
,
and
by
a
Parliament
of
our
own
Party
.
But
tho
we
suppose
the
King's
Declaration
for
Liberty
of
Conscience
to
be
founded
upon
that
Arbitrary
Power
which
we
have
vigorously
endeavored
to
advance
above
all
Law
,
when
it
could
be
strained
to
the
Oppression
of
Dissenters
,
and
to
the
Establishment
of
our
Greatness
;
yet
finding
it
to
be
now
Calculated
,
for
a
more
Equal
and
Impartial
end
,
and
destitute
of
those
private
Considerations
which
have
formerly
animated
Us
,
We
are
desirous
in
this
Conjuncture
(
as
We
were
formerly
,
in
the
Year
1672
)
that
those
Laws
for
Persecution
,
by
which
our
Ecclesiastical
Empire
has
been
maintained
should
retain
their
Force
,
and
do
by
no
means
think
fit
to
countenance
the
dispencing
with
them
,
upon
that
single
Motive
of
General
Good
which
the
Declaration
carries
along
with
it
.
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