Excerpt from A Letter to a Member of Parliament Concerning the Bill for Preventing the Growth of Schism But to ufe Force is not the way to fubdue them; it is againfi Nature and common Seule to think they areto be gained by fuch Methods. Good-will opensthe way to Men's Hearts, and the Toleration has thinned Presbyterian Aifemblies more than any rigid Means could ever have done. N 0 Man is perfuaded by him who hates him, but all are eafily prevailed Upon by thole who love 'em. The Dif fenters are quite another kind of People, than they were before the Toleration. By this Indulgence to them, it is a known Obfervation, that they are brought intothe Me thods of Life in common with the belt and molt polite Peopic, and Crowds of the Generations which have grown Up under the Toleration have conformed to the Church, from the Humanity of that Law. The Fathers of Fa milies have, perhaps, found fome Pain in retracting their Errors, and in going into new Communities and Conver fations; but we fee thoufands connive at the Conformi ty' of their Children, the Parents have been fecretly pleafed at their Sliding into that Oeconomy, for which the Fealr of the Imputatibn of Selfointerefi, or Apo flacy prevented them in their own Perfons to declare. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.