THE OR, Proteftant Non-Conformists, FROM THE DEATH OF KING CHARLES II. TO THE ACT of TOLERATION in the Reign of King WILLIAM CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF Their Principles; their Attempts for a further Reformation VOLUME V. WITH AN INDEX TỌ THE FIVE VOLUMES. By DANIEL NEAL, M. A. A NEW EDITION, 17720 REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ENLARGED, By JOSHUA TOULMIN, D. D. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED,, 130 1 3 0 A Some Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Author. This know alfo, that in the last days perilous times fhall come. They shall put you out of the Synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that BATH, PRINTED BY R. CRUTTWELL; AND SOLD BY John xvi. 2. C. DILLY, POULTRY; AND J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL's CHURCH. YARD, LONDON. 1797. 818+91 THE EDITOR's ADVERTISEMENT. HIS edition of Mr. NEAL'S "History of the THIS Puritans," after many interruptions, being at length completed, and the last volume being now prefented to the Publick, the Editor embraces this occafion to make his acknowledgments to the Gentlemen who have affifted and encouraged his defign. He feels his obligations to those who by their names and subscriptions have patronised it; and he is much indebted to fome who, by the communication of books and manuscripts, have aided the execution of it. Situated, as he is, at a great distance from the metropolis, and the libraries there open to the ftudious, he fees not how he could have enjoyed the means of examining Mr. Neal's authorities, in any extenfive degree, and of afcertaining the accuracy of the statements by an inspection of the writers of the last century, had not his GRACE the DUKE of GRAFTON moft handfomely offered, and most readily fupplied, a great number of books necessary to that purpose, from his large and valuable libraries, Some books of great authority were obligingly handed to him by Henry Waymouth, efq; of Exeter. His thanks thanks are alfo due to the Rev. Jofiah Thompson, of Clapham, and to Edmund Calamy, efq. To the former, for the free use of his manuscript collections, relative to the History of the Diffenting Churches; and to the latter, for the opportunity of perusing a manufcript of his worthy and learned ancestor, Dr. Edmund Calamy, intitled, "An Hiftorical Account of my "own Life, with fome reflections on the times I have "lived in." He has been likewife much indebted to a refpectable member of the fociety of Quakers, Mr. Morris Birkbeck, of Wanborough, Surry, for his judicious remarks on Mr. Neal, and for furnishing him with Gough's valuable Hiftory of that people. While the Editor makes his fincere and grateful acknowledgments to thefe Gentlemen, and to all who have favoured his undertaking with their approbation and assistance; he begs leave to folicit their further encouragement and aid; and any communi cations from others, that can contribute to the accuracy or completion of the work which he has before announced, and which he ftill has in contemplation, namely, "An History of the Proteftant Diffenters, and of the Progrefs of FREE ENQUIRY "and RELIGIOUS LIBERTY from the REVOLUTION "to the prefent Times." He cannot ascertain to what extent this work will reach; but he will aim to comprise the historical, literary, and biographical information, it will include, in as short a compafs as poffible: |