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Impossibility
of supporting
& carrying thro'
the system steadily
& uniformly

In such a country as England, the idea of
supporting a system of religious nonsense by violence
& .... is worthy only of a
Bedlamite projector. The total destruction
of the press is one part only of such a system project.
One single quill, improved by ...
is sufficient to

Laud himself, were he now to come upon the
earth, would be wiser than to attempt it.
It is reserved + for those who without inheriting
+ It belongs only
to
his ardent piety, his inflexible integrity,
inherit in perfection his narrowness of
mind, to hope by vain temporizing, by
double-dealing, by instead of reason,
and interest-making instead of argument, [+]
[+] so to strive against
their own [true] interest
& the bent of
things
to uphold for a while a tottering edifice
whose ruin will only be render'd more signal & more
to themselves from the such efforts to support
it.

It may draw with it a large part of that
edifice structure which it deforms — It may
draw with it, their whole credit & influence +
+ consequence
and reputation.

It was their business to instead of grappling it
fast by ...... arguments, to have
worked with their own hands to loosen it —
It might then have dropped off like a scab
come to it's maturity, which only leaves the flesh
which it had covered the more sound & florid.
to which it had
adher'd
Why would they make themselves parties? they
were not struck at?

SUBSCRIPTION
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Nonsense? Yes, nonsense — for without being at the pains looking 5
at it, one is always justified in calling that
one may be always
be sure to be right
nonsense which is cover'd by penalties from
the scrutiny of reason — The Statute alone
is sufficient to a reasonable man man of sense to fix
his faith. It meant to do so — it has
it's end.

Proultel —
standard
to the Exchequer
one.
Mischief 21.
of the
.

Supposing it professed to regulate all measures
by the a standard in the Exchequer — And
men were not suffer'd to apply their yards
to that, but to another was offer'd to them
in it's room — Would not they be justly warranted
in treating it as a mockery?

Paste it as
far as it will
—
Children more
&c

If Subscription is of that utility that is pretended,
it should be imposed on all.
At least upon all who write — If not upon
all who write, it does nothing.

There may be about [12]000 who by as numbers
of one or other of the universities have been
subjected to it — [12]000 out of 8 millions?
What have the remaining 8 millions done
that their sanctity is to be grudged the same
protection?

Why not make children subscribe in the
cradle? Why not make their sponsors when
they renounce for them the world the flesh and the Devil,
the world they
are coming into
the flesh God
clothed them in
& the Devil they
never saw know nothing about, renounce
their senses
for them &
subscribe
subscribe for them? Why neglect the tender
Sex?

Suppose a reward of £100 was offer'd
of

Why not boil down the paper of the 39 Articles
into a paste for Chickens Fowl? There can
be no doubt of their succeeding as well as
those prayers to the Holy Virgin Mary, which
a reverend Father of the Remote Church
assured us he found [of] an excellent [service] recipe
to promote their laying.+
+ v. Helvetius de
L'Homme —

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Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	009	Info in main headings field	subscription
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