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Say [+] what is the cause of your distress, your [+] lordly successors of our humble master
timidity, your irresolution? your soft speech
and your smother'd indignation? Where is your outward sweetness, & your inward Gall?
your faith? [Is the prophecy true or is it
false?] Will the Gates of Hell prevail The fire of your emissaries, & your own oil that feeds it?
against the Church, (that is, not as you would
be thought to understand it your Church) or will
they not? Is it a prophecy, or is it a vague Are the Infidels too hard for you?
conjecture, the verifying of which, like that
of yours or mine, depends upon the caprice of will
of man? Is God's word false or is it true?
You who abound in faith, in that faith, which
as you say - is from above - You who abound
in faith, after having given in barter for it
your morality, your candor, your sincerity
your gentleness, your philanthropy +, your + your independence your manhood
peace of mind, your quiet, your ease, your
conscience and that honest intelligible good
faith which is on the earth below, where would
be the Devil's gain if England were peacable
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The opinion of the a peculiar wisdom that is from above,
of something that is to stand sell in stead of so
many generous and available qualities which he has sacrificed <add>+, is + when he resigned abjured <add>sold</add> his liberty
what the merchandise <add>stock</add> he has to throw into the commerce of the
world. It is his capital - His power his influence, his grow by the break of
out of it. It is this ++ which gives puts <add>graves</add> this wrinkle ++ and the reflection upon his loss & his neck
of gravity upon his forehead: puts into & to his neck the
stiffness of command.
One Prelate whose dravering heart who struggles to be honest - LAW divided heart
Yes thou lost Children - I feel for thee - thou
hast Children - But believest thou not in
Jesus - In the cause of honesty & truth, & concscience
is it not his cause? Art thou not his servant
if thou fight for it? He will pay thee
better than by making thy children rich.
Thy Bishoprick can another take? what
fearest thou? "It is but a little one." Be
it so - Are that not riches enough in heaven
to make it up for it? He that clotheth the lillies of the
field as Solomon was never clothed will can he not clothe he not give them bread?
thy children? He that feedeth the hungry, will
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as Pensylvania, as Prussia+, as Russia+ are + Qu. as Holland
peaceable; if it were no more lawful forChristians were no more to be
permitted make Christians wretched than in
those ages which you call the golden ones? than in that short-lived period which you call the golden one.
When is it that you will content yourselves
in your riches without man's miseries for
sauce to them? When is it that+ [to contradict] + to be unwilling to say
what you have said without believing,
will cease to be a crime? When is it that
simulation double-dealing & Hypocrisy
Fraud, & treachery & simulation, will shall cease
to have their reward be rewarded at your hands? the rewards which you monopolize your rewards enjoy?
Whose face shines with the varnish of Dissimulation?
Say, are these points such, on which you are concerned
to form a judgement? then why abjure
all the exercise of judgement? are they not,? then
then why submitt to [an] indignity so crative?
Is this the liberty with which Christ has
made you free? Is their pride insatiable? Bow down then before your unfeeling
Tyrants, put their purple honour upon
your backs, put their knots upon your Shoulders,
be their hewars of wood & drawers of
water, lick the dust under their+ feet, Do every thing worship + Do all this, if it will content them
them with every thing, but the sacrifice of
your understanding.
Examples of conscience - the great number of
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of both persuasions that resigned their benefices during
the time of the civil troubles.
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With what face can they reprehend untruth and
their Pupils.
Markham the Say counterpart of Diary sa MARKHAM Companion of for Trophonius - whose relentless pride ne'er yet forget itself in a single surete
tis equally formed for the dignity thou fillest,length <add>stateto which thou hast doubted</add> as
he for that he left from which he fell who hadnst the language
sentiments of Asia in the language of Greece
& Rome
1 4 instillist who teachest the sentiments spirit of modern Greece 3 & Rome, 2 in the language of the ancient
foster the spirit of distant reserve, the most to be lamented
of the few faculties of his virtuous father?
Trophonius's cave exasperate the irritability
Say1, first 3 man in the Kingdom after the Cornwallis's
royal blood! 2 Successor of Grammar? Intrepid
-resolute, - - - consistent Prelate! Say, thou where enlighten'd, reasonable
theywhose - - . . hand switched from the assemblies
of gaiety thy reluctant nephew, tore off the
golden tresses from his shoulders head, and the embroidery
from his garments, made gain & godliness
and with the hope of the preference called down++ on him ++blew into him
the spirit of the Lord. AnswerLove When he looks into his
heart for his native candour
& finds it there no longer, has he much to thank thee for thy
anxious Nepotism.
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