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Click Here To Edit DISSENTERS. Penal Laws
               Toleration granted to the worst tenets
                So little has the zeal for Church uniformity to do with
 
                the interest of society which is made the  for 
                it, that,let me observe it, prevail in having this well observed  that I may 
 
                off the mark that I may for ever rank off the mark from  from superstition & intolerance
 
                in the guise of Toleration that among the only the very tenets
 
                [in favor of which Churchmen have been formed
 
                to defeat  of their ] which it  Churchmen have  has hitherto
                been thought proper, those which make the favored ones
                figure are those which the very ones & those only which (are
 
                calculated to) have an evil influence and as far as
                it goes they have any, upon the interests of Society.
          
                Moravians Does a man hold for that community of goods possessions
 
                by which industry is , commerce is  confined
 
                  , & all improvement by taking away the 
 
                  to it, discouraged? Let him come enter in. Does he
                  Quakers 
                hold for the  of defence,  that most
 
                  delerious of all tenets (in a single  I mean) were
 
                it , by which the most flourishing of 
 
                  were not long ago well nigh brought to 
 
                let him .
                that professions 
                Christian 
                provided always, he  to understand might the 
 
                  of the God-head
                Does a man misunderstand it, that is, does he not understand
                  it as those do, who, when it serves their turn
                  are ready enough to profess they have nothing of their
                  mother? it is a question whether he you is fit to live.
 
                  Jews Is he of that singular race unsociable of men, who fatten
                  upon the fruits of others labour, but who never made
                  any thing themselves but of promotion? He
                  may dwell in fatten on.
 
                  God forbid I should be understood.
 A man had better (had
                      a better account) as being
                      a Jew than a dissenter In this country I would defend the liberties which every
                  one of them enjoys, as I would my own.
                  Why so? because there is no fear but in a deleted text nation
 
                  enlightened as this, there will always be enough &
 
                  to those who are neither Jews Quakers nor Moravians,
 
                  after deleted text following is given to all those who
 
                  wish it, to indulge themselves in those their several
 
                  conceits.
                And by what standard
                    is this fundamentality
                    to be ? he knows of none, (his fanaticism driving
                     to reject that 
                    of the influence on the public
                    welfare) but the  of 
                    anger he happens to feel at seeing them disputed.
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