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1820 Apr. 10
J. B. to Carlile4
One more Sir I say it is not for the purpose of giving support
to your doctrines whatever they are that I am
exposing myself to the denomination of miscreant, and the
that stands to it — it is not for this
purpose cause but for the purpose of giving what support I may
to capable of giving to religious liberty that to the liberty of
and in searching for or that
ground subject in con of which all other subjects
put together . According to you an Yes one of I
state not a thousand it is for this that you nor and
& confirm. Were it for being a Mestorian, an Atheist, a
Quaker, a Methodist or even Protestant in the lands of among Church of Englandst, a Church
of Englandst among Catholics, or a Catholic among Church
of Englands that you ever sufferer say sympathy
with your sufferage my pathy is around the matter
of your suffering could be still the same. All these together
I could not be more that one of them at the same time
I could not be yet is not one of them that I could in the
not be charged with being, on the same grounds as pon in
I may be and ought to expect to be expect to be charged with being
a partaker in your opinions whatever they are.
in the portal can your opinions or those which I should
most likely to be charged with upon me by those in close friend to whom the bill
like of sympathy I am thus tendency presenting you with would or
the highest degree exasperate against me. Oh no, this imputation
would not be sufficiently afflicted on. Atheism is
the crowning charge. As High treason is in the seal of political
atheism is the chosen imputative in the seal of religious tyranny.
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letter 2602, vol. 9 |
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