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DISSENTERS. Penal Laws. Bishops.
A set of men who proclaim themselves deprived of their
dearest privilege, if no longer indulged with the keeping of
exempted from their fellow Christians & pastors in hourly peril of extirpation;
who to refute this greatest of evils, awake
from a slumber which no plan of public benefit can
ever interrupt; These are they
for whose service 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 sacrifice:
[these are they, whom the Nobles of the Realm have
alas, condescended to justify at the expence of ]
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 that
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 these not
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