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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.
paragraph
Moravians Does a man hold for that community of goods possessions
 by which industry is , commerce is  confined
 deleted text, & all improvement by taking away the 
 to it, discouraged? Let him come enter in. Does he
 Quakers hold for the  of defence, deleted text 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
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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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