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an unquestionable refusal. [What] would you
thensubmit to a Law ordering the
Laws of God
and theyour Bible that contains them to be consulted or
burnt? The question is perplexing. But
I will tell him how I would go about to
solve it. I would not rise up
in arms merely on that
account, without fur-
ther consideration: but
I I would sit down and consider,
whether a society country was woth living in,
where they had burnt their Bible. For this
declaration I as little fear the rescindment
of sober and enlightened Christians, as
for the farmer, that of the Legislation. . But why
is not our Author up in arms?
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It is the part of a man to look evils steadily in
the face, to [first] explore out their causes of them, and
to arm himself against them. It is the heart of a
woman or achild to sit helpless and whimpering at the thought. I think there one much of
their existencesubsisting smiling at them and whimpering
at the thoughts that they exist.
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