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DISSENTERS Penal Laws
weight of the general indignation; on no subject is the sense of the nation universal in any other import. If there were really two parties upon this question, the
intolerant party, thus armed by the Law, must tread
upon the other,the other underfoot, as the case was in Charles & James the 2d's reign
& would have been to a much greater degree, had it
not been for that sort of . . . . .partial reconciliationwhich is
produced by the instant terror of Popery the a common enemy, long
since removed.
that their comment upon that yourselves to every ordinance of man It is not necessary to enter into the delicate question
how far upon extraordinary occasions, in extraordinary situations & upon extraordinary successes it may be
lawful, that is it may be expedient can be admitted to befor the Rulers
of the nation to act what they suppose for its interests against its' what
they know to be its' sentiments. sure I am, that nothing has
appear'd of late to indicate any such extraordinary
necessity, nor even, as I can learn, has been alledged.
Let us consider for a moment on the side of consistency,
morality probity & prudence what upon this hypothesis
must be the lesson which these titled superior ministers
of Religion preach by this their conduct more forcibly
than by a thousand sermons.
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