The conformist's second plea for the nonconformists wherein the case of the non-conformists is further stated and the suspension of the penal laws against them humbly moved with all due submission to the magistrate / by a charitable and compassionate conformist, author of the former plea.

THE Conformist's second Plea FOR THE Nonconformists.

WHEREIN The Case of the Non-Conformists is fur∣ther stated; and the Suspension of the Penal Laws against them, humbly moved with all due submission to the Magistrate.

By a Charitable and Compassionate Conformist: Author of the former PLEA.

Sed neque Imperiale est Libertatem dicendi denegare, neque Sacerdo∣tale quod sentiat non dicere. S. Ambros. ad Theodos. Ep. 29.

— There hath been left, for any thing I find to the contrary, in all well-govern'd Polities, a kind of latitude more or less, and power in the Magistrates, even in those Courts that were Strictissimi Juris, upon fit oc∣casion to qualify and mitigate something the Rigor of the Laws by the Rules of Equity. Bp Sanderson's Sermons, 1 Vol. p. 112. Ad Magistratum.

LONDON, Printed by J. D. for Jonathan Robinson, at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1682.