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Divesting
Cogent Forcible and decent as they are one should at least
have expected that these at least should have been
as good for the six remaining days of the
week, as for the seventh. No such thing. [The
business prohibition is confined to the Sunday.]
It is to Sunday the prohibition is confined. It
is on sunday only that religious discussions conversations discourse is
are dangerous: on any other day, or on every
other day they are as innocent as ever. All While
sunday all that fine reasoning preserves it's force sunday lasts all these fine reasons hold up ther heads, & flourishes in full vigour :
at 12 o'clock at night when the [As soon as the night clock hath struck twelve,] Before monday's
cock has crowed once
they
fall to the ground [and are denied]. The business
of the sunday is not to be done on that day:
but it may be done and overdone any of throughout the
other six.
[She would and she would not: this seems to
be the striking character of the Church of England:
which to absurdities and [atrocities] that may be
found in other churches adds a degree of inconsistency
which is peculiar to herself.]
When I say this, I speak not with reference to the
nation at large. In the University of Oxford, that
nursery of religion, men are not permitted to talk
on the subject of religion any day not even Church-of-
England-men
; not even in private
houses. Unaware surely of the offence he would
give to the University of Oxford, Jesus had promised,
that
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