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which call themselves reformed.

In Catholic countries obedience to compliance with this as with
any other injunction which the law may
be exacted by making it a condition to the
benefits of absolution. Among Protestants it cannot this engine can never
be expected have equal force. In England where the influence
of religion in general is small, and of
whatever must come through the hands of the clergy
still smaller, it would probably have less force
than any where else. It might be worth trying
however even here: some force it might have
notwithstanding: valeat quantum valere potest. A
homily on that subject might be composed, to be read in churches
at stated periods: and occasional exhortations
might be transmitted remitted by the Ordinary to the proper
parishes pro re natâ. [It might be worth while
to try, if it were only out of curiosity for the sake of the experiment,
whether religion could not be put to a
good use as well as to so many bad ones.]
In Scotland and in the others other Protestant countries
in Europe upon the continent where religion has an influence reigns and
the Clergy are held in honour more might be it might have
more effect expected from this use could the maxim fas est
et ho ab hoste doceri hope for expect as much regard
in religion as in politics. In Ireland, those
who

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	181	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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