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DISSENTERS Penal Laws
I leave those who have profited by it to triumph in such as the Alliance I can only believe because it consists with the ordinary effects manifestations of the spirit of Technical Systematical
Theology, that there are not wanting men, out without of the establishment, who sooner than lose
the chance of seeing their enemies suffer, would expose themselves to suffer with them
but I must own myself somewhat less credulous as to
their zeal to continue exposed to
the perils of persecution; because
this sort at least of fanaticism is not much in vogue.
Bad if united knit by the sense of common danger If however they be indeed sincere, it will be the easiest of all matters would be easy to find out a method to content them, and
I have too much indulgence strong a disposition to for appetites the most depraved whom they which do not its flows in not injure not the
interests of Society, to sample these prohibition the to quantify them in this:
<p> When the mild & equal spirit of legislative wisdom
Who as they have not failed to do in all past time, so will they not in all future to dispute Inch by Inch the ground on which the batteries for the annoyance of their enemies are erected
Let freedom security be given to those who love it for themselves and others, & let those Cappodocians
be exempted from it by name. To each will thus be rendered what he severally deserves:
Servitude to whom servitude is acceptable, freedom to whom freedom.
The Policy of defending one of those four bonds of dependency which yet retain their hold vanish. I can blame without wondering at the pertinacy of the Americans
What the Church of Rome has been
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to the Church of England, the Church of England is to the Americans
The excellent Locke+ + Letter to a person of quality. speaks of the Divines of his times (and indeed as be there observes of all
others) as the teachers of all mischief.
Those of our own, having it no longer in their power to hatch mischief, content themselves
with opposing good.
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