The Dissenters ought to withdraw from the magistracy, but it was persecution to exclude them.

In tract after tract of brilliant and trenchant argument, he upheld these views, with his usual courage attacking most fiercely those antagonists who went most nearly on the lines of his own previous writings.

Ignoring what he had said before, he now proved clearly that the Occasional Conformity Bill was a breach of the Act of Toleration.

There was little difference between his own _Shortest Way to Peace and Union_, and Sir Humphrey Mackworth's _Peace at Home_, but he assailed the latter pamphlet vigorously, and showed that it had been the practice in all countries for Dissenters from the established religion to have a share in the business of the State.

At the same time he never departed so far from the "moderate" point of view, as to insist that Dissenters ought to be admitted to a share in the business of the State.
Let the High-Church ministers be dismissed, and moderate men summoned to the Queen's councils, and the Dissenters would have every reason to be content.