JB/087/058/002

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Indirect Legislation

Divesting

"It is so full of absurdity,
it is so open to ridicule,
it is so unintelligible,
or when intelligible is
frequently pernicious, that
to suffer the people to talk
about must be big with
danger."
As if conscious here indeed that
religion could never will not
stand a free discussion
and that the very
freedom which
gave it birth would
prove mortal to it
in its maturity.

What is curious is that this very act [the
genuine offspring of the Church of England] contains
an express provision for prohibiting the prevention
of this very practise business : F the practise business of meeting to
discourse upon religious subjects. What then
I wonder how a man who would do what the church would have him is to behave himself on this
day. First he is driven out of the paths of labour: then next out of every circle of amusement:
lastly out of the very bosom of religion: except
in the lap of corrupting pestilential idleness, an Englishman
knows not where to lay his head.

She would & she
would not. : this is
the character of the
Church of England:
which to the weakness & absurdity
of other churches adds
a degree of inconsistency
peculiar to
herself

The words of the preamble are as follows.
"Whereas certain houses . . . have of late frequently

Whenever it does not
turn a man's brain
it will appear ridiculous
to him.

Identifier: | JB/087/058/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	058	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	27583
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