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BOOK IV. Countries &c. Inserenda.
I would give very little to know the period when
Tithes were instituted: I would give more to see
the time day when they shall be abolished: converted
into an equivalent but less burthensome provision,
that the hand of exaction may no longer nip
improvement in the bud, and that the pastor and
his flock may live feed in peace.
Our Author might then pour Might I see this, I would leave the our Author to worship
the divinity of the institution: and to stigmatize as religious
those who should forbear to yield pay them after
the state shall have taken off the obligation,
as he has those who declared to do so before the it
state had put it on: fit employment for a pious
and enlightened jurist – [who embraces clasps to his bosom any standard of
right and wrong, other than that odious and
profane one of the public good.] passionate after
follower any standard of right and wrong that will ]can free him]
set him loose free from that odious and profane
one of the public good.
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