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persuaded it would have been freed from fee most material objections to which , within my own knowledge , many respectable members of the Society now consider it as justly liable . PACIFICUS .
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Principles of the Levellers , 165 $ . The Levellers , of the century before last , comprised a large body of Englishmen of the finest sense , purest riiann&rs and most
enlightened religion . But they were ages before the bulk of their countrymen in moral and intellectual advancement ^ and were therefore vilified by the multitude , feared by the weak arid hated by the wicked . Their name has been
revived even in tabdern times , as a bug-bear to frighten men from attacking hoary prejudice and inveterate corruption ^ When will the stilj . 9 > small voice of truth be heard in churches and states ?
In order to do our part towards rendering historic justice to a calumniated portion of our forefa - thers , we shi ^ ll extract into this and the following number , from the Harleian Miscellany , 8 vo . ed .
1810 , vol . VII . pp . $ 6—46 , a paper , in which the real principles of a Leveller are stated with great shiiplicity , argued with miich abi - lity , and expressed in pure
language . As the work from which we copy the pamphlet is voluminous and expensive , the article will be a novelty to some of our readers . —Editor .
THE LEVELLER : Or the Principles and Maxims concerning Government arid Religton ^ xchich are asserted by those that are commonly called Le-Sellers .
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London : Printed for Thomas Brewster , at the Three * ibles , at the west end of St . Paurs , 1659 . Quarto , containing 16 pages . When the sect of the Christians
first arose , the tyrants wrapped them in beasts' skins to provoke the wild beasts to rend them in pieces ; and , when Christ the Lord descended to earth , the priests and pharisees , finding his
doctrine and holiness against their interest , cast upon him all the dirt of blasphemy , drunkenness and confederacy with the worst of sinners ; and , to make sure of hi $ life , they rendered him an enemy to government , and told Pilate flhat he was no friend to Caesar if
he let him go . It hath been the common practice of all tyrants , to cover the face of honesty with the mask of scandal and reproach , lest the people should be ena *
moured with its beauty . It is a master-piece in their politics , to persuade the people that their best friends are their worst enemies , and that whosoever asserts their
rights and liberties , is factious and seditious , and a disturber of their peace * Did not the Grac # hi , in Rome , by such policy , perish b y the people ' s hands , whose
liberties they sought to vindicate ? And do not some Englishmen now s « ffer deeply upon the same account , from the people ' s hands for , whose sakes tliey have prodigally hazarded their estates and lives ?
Are not some lovers of their country defamed and esteemed prodigious monsters , being , branded with the name of Levellers , whilst those that reproach and hate them neither know their principles or opinions concerning government , nor the good they iru
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Principles of the Levellers , l 65 & . & 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/23/
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