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la my former travels , I used to pursue with some zeal the objects you so warmly recommended ; of surveying the fine territories , the cultivated countries , the soil , climate , and different productions of various * countries , " but a
Christian Bishop , and especially a Pro - testant , my friend , ought to have greater objects in view , and nobler game to pursue . €€ Paulo majora cancmus : non omnes Arbusta juvant , humiles que myricae . **
Agriculture , and all its subordinate branches of improvement , deserve the attention of every traveller , and whoever has the welfare of his country at heart , will
endeavour to import some new lessons in this science ; but it is liberty , and above all religious liberty , that can make a country flourish , give it numerous inhabitants , and make
those inhabitants peaceable , industrious and happy ; without this , my friend , without the liberty of worshipping our Creator according to the dictates of our conscience , no matter whether ill or well
directed , civil liberty is but imperfect , and allows us only the use of our body , without that of the mind . I can conceive only one case in which religious liberty ought not to be granted to one
part of a society ; and that is , when it proves inconsistent with the civil liberty of the remainder : and this has generally been supposed to be ihe case with the Roman Catholics ; but this supposition has been founded entirely
upon a mistake , and upon the idea , that every Roman Catholic was a Papist *—Whereas this is so far from being the case , thai one might as well suppose that every Protestant was an Episcopalian , and every Episcopalian an high
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Churchman , which you know would be a gross error . In Popery as in every other sect , there are subdivisions ; there are also fundamental points in which all the members of that
sect agree , and there are secondary ones , in which all differ : these are no longer dogmas , not the trunk or body of the tree which it would be sacrilege to touch , but merely branches , twigs , and sometimes
excrescences , which a wise gardener generally prunes , in order to strengthen the tree , and improve the fruit , but which our Popish gardener has suffered to
multiply and extend , in order to make a » many stand under its shade as possible . —Transubstantiation , seven sacraments . &c . &c . these are the dogmas of Popery , the harmless articles of faith which
every Papist is bound to believe , and which every Protestant may allow them to preach , without fearing for the Habeas Corpus and the trial by jury . —But the school opinions arj || more dangerous and more impormnt ; they are like a Frenchman ' s ruffles , of more consequence than his shirt , and generally more ostensible—these school opinions are the sting of Popery , and make so venomous an animal .
that whoever has the misfortune to be bit by him , runs the chance of losing some good limb of his liber , ty . The Test Act which was pass-.
ed in Ireland in 1774 , was calculated to distinguish the Papist from tbe Catholic , and the parti * zan of the court of Rome , from the member of the Chtirch of
Rome ; and it has done it so effectually , that one half of that communion have taken the oath , whilst the other half , . with the best disposition in the world t #
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. Letter from the late Bishop of Derry . * t < L 7
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/39/
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