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It is a very true observation of a celebrated politician's, tho made to indifferent purpose, that
the generality of mankind are 100 years at least behind hand in their politics:

But ever in respect to those times the
is undertaken: if it ever it
was with any other nation, it certainly
never was the way with Englishmen
to quarrel with the liberty that
was given them

If ever there was a time, when the
Magistrate had said to the people,
believe each of you as you will, or as you
can, but follow the precepts of the
Gospel in being peaceable & loving
one another, & then they had taken
up arms, & then they had fallen to
cutting peoples one another's throats
the case would have been parallel:
but has it ever been so, yet? that there never has been yet.

The language has always been, believe
all of you as I do to day; believe all of you
the contrary tomorrow as I shall
do tomorrow; or flames or
or beggary banishment or civil disabilities
or ecclesiastical disabilities, now
that I can no longer bring any
of the rest to bear against you
shall be your portion.

There have been x .. instances
where the first mentioned sort of
language has been used; the
people to whom it was addressed
were our own people, but infinitely
more attached to their speculative
tenets beyond what have they the people are that it is pretended [by any
one the people] are to be at present:
men who had most of many of them given the last proofs
of the rigor of that attachment
by quitting their native country
to manifest it in what was then
a desert.

Mark then what in every one
of these instances has been the consequence
of such language? has
it been in any one everyone the very opposite such as is
apprehended or affected to be apprehended.

Is it cases in point But we
want look for to govern our conclusions
in the present? There are so many
complete ones & much stronger:
& now let men call it, prudence & caution to
abandon these & pursue in their
stead the current truck of their imagination
let them plume themselves upon
their regard they have shewn for peace; by in repelling
those measures of levity which have
never yet failed to produce nor will if pursued to
perpetuate it: & adhering to those
measures of vigor which keep
alive that complaint & anxiety & [lamentation]
& distress, which so many reputable
men feel who have dare to express
it, & so many more
who dare not.

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