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present to the view of the Honorable House this
instrument as possessing are the following: they
consist in its being

1. Needless, to wit, to the purpose of
expressing mendacity on judicial occasions
or for a judicial purpose.

2. Inefficacious, on the same occasions.

3. Mischievous, to an enormous extent
in a variety of ways.

4. Inconsistent wish, the recived notions belonging to Natural Religion

5. Antiscriptural.

6. Useful to Judge and Co.: eminently
subservient to their particular and sinister interest;
and as such cherished by them.

First to the needlessness. For the
needlessness of this ceremony, on the sort of
occasion or for the sort of purpose in question,
we, humbly call to witness your Honorable
House Prince in legislation is, in effect the
part borne by you. In your hands is the public
purse: with you, with few and casual exceptions,
laws originate. Take any law whatsoever, in
the scale of importance what, in comparison
with the power of making that same law, is
the power of exercising, in relation to it, an
act of judicature, reversable of course at pleasure
by the powers by which the law was enacted?
Well then — when at the instance of the Honorable
House, a law has been enacted — this
same law, was it passed upon determinate

2.

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or endeavoured to be made the instrument: of
the profanation of the ceremony, the guilt if
any, is one and the same.

Infinitely diversified in respect
of degree of importance, are the purposes to which
this instrument, such as it is, is wont to be applied.
Does it in its nature possess any capacity of being,
by its variability in quality and thence in form,
unaccommodated to these several purposes?
Not any.

The punishment, if any, the
infliction of which is expected, is, in every
instance, the same, for which the Attorney for
his shilling, draws upon the Almighty. This
Draught — will it be honored?

But, (says somebody,) for
binding a mans attention to the importance
of the occasion, some mark of distinction between
an assertion that is and one that is
not intended to be legally operative — may
if not be of use? Yes doubtless — But for this
purpose, no such preposterous pretended
assumption, of authority, over the Creator,
by the Creature, is either necessary or in any
degree useful. By the word asseveration,
the appropriate extraordinary application
of the faculty of attention is already sufficiently
indicated.

On occasions of the sort in
question, in the instance of the people called
Quakers, by special allowance from the Legislature

15.

Identifier: | JB/081/183/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	183	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / c2 / c15 / c16
Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	25970
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