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May
On Toleration To Public Advertiser
May 20th Inclosed the
letter to Ch. Brother Esqr
Line. Secretary to
the Catholic Society.
After recital of the letter of Philanthropos in Public
Advertiser of 12 May 1789
Answer by a Church of England man
M.A. of the University of Oxford
That this is an article of faith in the Church
of Rome is but too true: that such it is so in the
Church of England is equally so. The doctrine
of the Trinity is set forth in the Athenarium
Alas, Sir! true or not true of the Church of
Rome, all this is but too truewould it were not of the Church of
England! — "Whosoever would be saved, must thus
"think of the Trinity." says the concluding article
Thereas learned in the
Does The history of pontificates and Councils Has Philanthropos never heard
of what creed this is the concluding article?
According to Philanthropos the penal laws
against Papists instead of being repealed as to Papiststhem ought therefore to
[+] the statutes containing
some degree of rigour be extended to Church of England-men: and,
to make a beginning, all the Clergy of the
latter church persuasion, beginning withfrom his Grace of
Canterbury and ending withdown to the last Curate be
ordained, ought to be hanged at any timeas soon as
at the pleasure of Philanthropos or whoeverany one
else may choose to prosecute of his persuasion is at leisure to tie
the noose
For this isso says one of the "statutes containing some
27 Eliz.c..s.||.3.
still unrepealed: and
the rest are like unto
it. degree of rigour" which to<add>in the eyes of</add> Philanthropos are
so necessary for the restraint of the persons he
describes.
Quere, of what religious denomination is PhilanPhilanthropos this lover of
mankind and what Church were his queries meant to serve?
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