There had always been Dislikes and Distasts between even the most
moderate Solunarians and the Crolians, as I have noted in the
beginning of this Relation, and these were deriv'd from Dissenting in
Opinions of Religion, ancient Feuds, private Interest, Education, and
the like; and the Solunarians had frequently, on pretence of securing
the Government, made Laws to exclude the Crolians from any part of
the Administration, unless they submitted to some Religious Tests and
Ceremonies which were prescrib'd them.
Now as the keeping them out of Offices was more the Design than the
Conversion of the Crolians to the Solunarian Church, the Crolians, at
least many of them, submitted to the Test, and frequently Conform'd
to qualify themselves for publick Employments.
The most moderate of the Solunarians were in their Opinion against
this practice, and the High Men taking advantage of them, drew them
in to Concur in making a Law with yet more Severity against them,
effectually to keep them out of Employment.
The low Solunarians were easy to be drawn into this Project, as it
was only a Confirming former Laws of their own making, and all Things
run fair for the Design; but as the High Men had further Ends in it
than barely reducing the Crolians to Conformity, they coucht so many
gross Clauses into their Law, that even the Grandees of the
Solunarians themselves could not comply with; nay even the Patriarchs
of the Solunarian Church declar'd against it, as tending to
Persecution and Confusion.
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