JB/073/022/001

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DISSENTERS. Penal Laws

A zeal for a Church as such, if to be gratified by methods
in any degree partaking of coercion, is if rightly
understood, a crime against the State; since the
gratification it seeks is to be accomplished at the
expense of a portion of the happiness of a number of the
members of that state, in whose conduct the coercion
is to operate: certainly in this life, by the very supposition:
for to say any thing as to a future, would be to beg
the question in favour of one side or the other.

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Any expression of such a zeal, is but a disguised expression
profession of an itch to play the Tyrant.

Men of otherwise of conscience & of worth.

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A zeal in a man for the magnifying of a Church, is not a desire
to serve God in his own way for that,as to he is in the same case whether the has many members of his church do, whatever becomes of other peopleby few or many [in the manner, he thinks, but will
please him,] but a zeal to make others do so
too.

There is one deliverance from which.. ..
never can escape

Either men will hold to your Church I speak as between Christians.if left to themselves,
or they will think another better: if the first,
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your pains are to no purpose; if the latter, it comes
to the old story tale, by

I am the only one in whom reason is to be found
Grant that you have a right to judge what is necessary to salvation for others as well as yourself, If this be admitted, & welfare in future life be taken unto consideration, it is a justifiable duty taugt out of 2 civil Wars if they will not otherwise be converted, to cut the throats of some out and to serve the fools of another the remainder.

Those men who have such an opinion of the reasonableness
of their persuasion, as that if placed on fair even>
ground with it's rivals it must fall sink: who think, that
in that comfortable comforting prophicy assurance of the Author of our
that the commonsense Religion or, "the Gates of Hell shall not prevail
against it," their own branch of it is an exception,
let it be judged whether it be for the prosperity on behalf of the interests of
their Religion that they are jealous, or of the damnnation
of their own will.

Identifier: | JB/073/022/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 73.
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