LETTER.
There is nothing will so effectually tend to the final Ruin of the Church of England, because our Reading the Declaration will Dis∣courage, or Provoke, or misguide, all the Friends the Church of England has: can we blame any man for not preserving the Laws and the Religion of our Church and Nation, when we our selves will venture nothing for it? can we blame any Man for consenting to Re∣peal the Test and Penal Laws, when we recommend it to them by Reading the Declaration? Have we not Reason to expect that the No∣bility and Gentry, who have already Suffered in this Cause, when they hear themselves condemned for it in all the Churches of England, will think it time to mend such a Fault, and reconcile themselves to their Prince? and if our Church fall this way, is there any Reason to ex∣pect that it should ever rise again? These Consequences are almost as evident as Demonstrations, and let it be what it will in it self, which I foresee will destroy the Church of England and the Protestant Re∣gion and Interest, I think I ought to make as much Conscience of doing it, as of doing the most immoral Action in Nature.