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<head>DISSENTERS. Penal Laws. Bishops.</head> | <head>DISSENTERS. Penal Laws. Bishops.</head> | ||
A set of men who proclaim themselves disposed of their dearest privilege, if no longer indulged with the <unclear>helping</unclear> of<lb/>their fellow Christians who to refute this greatest of <unclear>words</unclear>, awake from a slumber which no <gap/> <del>who had no</del> plan of public benefit can interrupt; <add>+</add> these are they to whom the peace & harmony of the state are to be a made a <unclear>questionable reading</unclear> | A set of men who proclaim themselves disposed of their dearest privilege, if no longer indulged with the <unclear>helping</unclear> of<lb/> <note>exempted from</note> their fellow Christians who to refute this greatest of <unclear>words</unclear>, awake from a slumber which no <gap/> <del>who had no</del> plan of public benefit can interrupt; <note>These are they for whose <unclear>questionable reading</unclear> the Nobles of the Realm are to put on the black livery of intolerance</note> <add>+</add> these are they to whom the peace & harmony of the state are to be a made a <unclear>questionable reading</unclear>: <lb/><del>these are they, whom the Nobles of the Realm have <gap/> | ||
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these are they, for whom the voice of the people <note>in a religious matter</note> never more unanimously <unclear>testified</unclear> by their chosen representatives, <del>has been</del> is to be set at naught: and this in an age which plumes itself upon philosophy, upon toleration, upon a <del>due</del> thorough knowledge of & a thorough regard for the interests of religious liberty. Vain boasts! were there not<pb/> | |||
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DISSENTERS. Penal Laws. Bishops.
A set of men who proclaim themselves disposed of their dearest privilege, if no longer indulged with the helping of
exempted from their fellow Christians who to refute this greatest of words, awake from a slumber which no who had no plan of public benefit can interrupt; These are they for whose questionable reading the Nobles of the Realm are to put on the black livery of intolerance + these are they to whom the peace & harmony of the state are to be a made a questionable reading:
these are they, whom the Nobles of the Realm have
these are they, for whom the voice of the people in a religious matter never more unanimously testified by their chosen representatives, has been is to be set at naught: and this in an age which plumes itself upon philosophy, upon toleration, upon a due thorough knowledge of & a thorough regard for the interests of religious liberty. Vain boasts! were there not
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