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and ^ of pri ^ BteFaft ^ Which ta # ^| fc fineee ^ ave aceiiturifes ower the felsefy * iealle # Ohuj ^ hi of Ghiist ^ until ; our eyes are gladdened by the l % ht < tf truth , whicb again b « gAn to datvn at the EeformanoTk Emot * indeed and feeble was ite Kgrht , vet s weet its , in *
Hu&nce to the mind that long had gpoaiied under tbe excessive severiti ^ the gross impositions and the impui ^ tent iniquity of , the Papal power ^ nd its satellites . Joyfully was it hailed fry every horfest heart ; and although It foinid its way into out ; bland only
through the small , loop-hole which the lust of its king had rent open , and was os th ^; aeco ^ mt little preferable to the darkness ahd bigotry of Popery , yfet it wa& acceptable , inastouch d ^ it broke the charm of prie&tly power and pttt to flighty the iswaniit of locuata wfaiek had spread deaolatioil dyep tfee fair field of human iftdiiatry toad de *
voured itsfrmtS * / . - V * We shall then be led to . examine the priaclple upon # hich Establiah ment ^ &e& nteesaarily formed ,: feta ^ ail
strooy ofe ^ ectioils ^ gaa » $ t ^ of tfictm alike , the floctnating state in wMdl the fioctiroeft of our own remained for « long time , and Hm pcjtsecating spirit of its advocates : ' afid it . vvill , be an
easy task to shew > tteit this principle is 6 ic ? ogeth ^ r rncoasigt ^ n . t wil : h A ^ rights of conscience , calculated ' po * e ^ & » tend errof add au ^ erstiticin , to m 4 ke ee ^ nr Ityiwaferites or ctoelesst of Afetf thiHff , disc » di % tW anthprity <^ f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/19/
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