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Stat: Law
Inserenda
man who without flattery, for he is dead, without
irony, for his subjects confirm the title, and
without partiality, for he was a Frenchman,
may be stated one of the best of Kings:⊞ ⊞ another one of in a nation where every thing is centred in a the good King. Yet Ravaillac
was unquestionably pious. Callous
to every other sentiment, he abandoned himself
utterly without reserve to the impulse of the Religious sanction.
A well-known history joined to a thousand
other equally well known histories, which
should have led Bishop Warburton , and
those other discreete divines who value every Religion
as a ( source of means of securing) the comforts
of the present life, to consider that it is not of itself that
it has any such property effect, but according as it
is applied. Our Author to do him justice
is no Ravaillac. He would much sooner worship
a King, than kill him. The mischief poison
of his for principles tends is of a motive no further than
if adopted to plunge fill whole nations into with
slaughter blood & persecution (and confusion) (and turn conquest
into exploitation). Steady to his principles systems
of his intolerance, and happy and Lord Cotton found only in
sheet-anchor for his scape goal and in scape-goal transported with the patronage of in Lord Cotton
he takes up the trumpet of authority, and
Stat: Law 34
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