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    follow their example , found the pill too large for their swallow , an 4 for fear ** f being choaked in the attempt , wem obliged to desist , swear it was > poison , and that aVl those * would > be kilt who had taken it .

    In fact , the conit oi Rome have denounced vengeance against n \ l those who have subscribed the test , and they are for ever erased out of tfeq . book of promotion . These are the men therefore who

    ought to he tolerated in the free , comfortable exercise of their religion , nay , tfehey have an irreversible right * to it , and the withholding that right is as gross persecution , as < any committed by the court of

    . Rome : for whenever the religious opinions t > f any sect-do not affect . the civil liberties of the community \ intolerance becomes persecution ; >—and a Protestant legislator who / Joes not tolerate such -opinions ,

    is « Protestant upon Popish principles ; he denies to others that private judgment which he exercises himself , ar \ d by the use of hvhjch alone , his ^ ngestors separated from the nickt universal

    church ever known in the ' world . Thesey my friend , are my principles , and I am sorry to fiml that those df your brethren differ from them , or that their conduct differs

    from ' their principles . Protestant Dissenters , if they would be coti - distent , should allow of Popish JDis&enterff and -above all when -they refuse to * lo so , they ought'to be certain ^ that their re fusal is well

    grounded , andtlhat the sectaries whom they persecute , do really fobld nke principles theyfoondeflMu A Protestant dare not avow , that he persecutes mere speculative opinions , and therefore if the true < tethc # c , if the Catholic who ubfcciibes the Test AdU hold *

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    nohe but speculative o |) m * oiis , he cannot properly be ip ^ rBecttted in any instance tvbatever , by a Consistent Protestant . Your parliament , therefore , your newly efrtlightened Senate ^ Who Upon tfie X 5 th of June , 1778 , have allowed

    themselves to think of relieving innocent Catholics in temporal matters , but have declined to indulge them in spiritual , though much less important to thfe ^ tatje , have given a problem to the world s of which no one will find the

    solution , who does not know as much of this conjuring trick as I do * The case then is no more than this . In 1774 , the Parliament passed an act , called the Test ;

    enabling the Papists to purge themselves by oath of -certaiii dangerous and horrid opinions , impttted to them , which Uninformed Pro * -testants considered as the essence

    -of Popery , ^ nVhfch the Papists themselves asserted to be aiere school opinions . As soon as the act was published , th ^ P <» pish gent lemen , who scarce knew that such opinions exi * tt d , except by the imputations of the Protestants , were surprised to find themselves called on to renounce 'doctrines

    they never held , and rarely had heard of , and flocked in crowds to do themselves justice * by the rniost solemn abjuration . Tbe ^ lergy ^ « whose mental food aro school opinions , which nourish li&tile , and 'bloat much , were

    immediately divided , * part subscribed the test fhe rest refused it . The i ^ efusers complained to Rome of the subscribers , < the subscribers were proseribed in the ^ black-book here , and ybtir senate iiave been unwise enough aot to inscribe them in the'white-book at Tiorrie . Tbey teve renounced ail the doc-

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    -34 J 5 Letter from the Itite Bishop of JDbrrg

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 248, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/40/