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DISSENTERS. Penal Laws
A zeal for a Church as each, of to be gratified by methods
in any degree partaking of coercion, is if rightly
understood, a crime against the state; instead the
graitification it needs is to be accomplished of the
expense of a portion of the happenings of a member of the
members of that state, in whose conduct the coercion
is to operate: certainly in this life, by the very supposition
for to ??? any thing as a failure, would be to beg
the question in favour of one si
de or the other.
My exposition of such a zeal, is but a disguised exfercsion
profession of an itch to play the vagrant.
More otherwise
case of worth.
A zeal in a man for the magnifying of a Church, is not a sencio
to serve God <
add>in his own way</add>as to ??? in the ??? case for that, whether the members of his church do, whether because by force of many of their people[in the manner, he thinks, but with
please him], but a zeal to make others do so
too.
There is one deliverance from which....
never can escape.
Either man will hold to your Church I speak as between Christiansif left to themselves,
or they will think another better: if thenceforth
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your pains are to no purpose; if the latter, it comes
to the old thing . ly
I am the only one in whom reason is to be found
. Grant that you have
a right to judge who
is much man to
for others as as yourself.
If this be admitted, I
welfare in sustain life
be there unto condemnative,
it is justifiacing a duty
out of 2
of and be converted
to cut the from
end and to cover the foods
of another. the remainder.
Those men who have such an opinion of the reasonableness
of their persuasion, as that it placed on fair case
ground with its words it must fall rank: who thinks, that
in that comfortable comforting assurance prophecy of the stulter of our
religion the commonsense, "the gates of Hell shall not prevail
against it," their our branch of it is on scripture
let it be judged whether it be for for the prosperityon behalf of the interests of
religion that they are jealous or of the damnnation
of their own will.
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