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Punishment can have effect, good or
bad but through by means of the opinion of its [falsity]
being to be be administer'd
Either they expect to be believed or they do-not
If they do, the Laws they shackle for have refuse to part with
no in them can have no <add>good use in them by
their own confession</add>
If they do not
The truth is, they are not believed; because
they do not deserve to be so. No man
whose actions are at open variance with
his words, can be long, or deserves to be believed, [+]
Have the people then no trust, no consolation?
Yes they have [a trust]
They have a trust But
it is in the general probity of the people
DISSENTERS. Penal Laws.
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which in vain sollicited complied by rewards, will not has
furnish a man to lead his refuses and for an age past has refused to lend a single hand to the
best of persecution: it is in the particular
wisdom of the representatives of the people
who would not suffer their fellow citizens
to be oppressed overwhelmed with
[+]
Consistently with reason and experience, they
have no right to be believed+ in matters of + in a matter thus
Religion. Consistently with their own principles, they have no right to be believed
at all. in any thing. He who has lied unto his God,
how shall he speak truth to man?
The Religious Sanction, of which they take into
their keeping, whose force they magnify
above every thing, who like them have
prostituted trampled on and continued? Society would Happy that
Society is long since have gone to , had it notwere it none have trodden under foot like them,
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bound together by bands of very different
tamper and construction; long since stronger tamper
would it else have gone to wrack.
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