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TO HIS GRACE

HENRY-PELHAM,

DUKE OF NEWCASTLE, K. G.

LORD LIEUTENANT

OF THE COUNTY OF NOTTINGHAM,

THE EARNEST ADVOCATE AND FIRM DEFENDER

OF

THE PURE AND REFORMED WORSHIP AND DOCTRINE

OF

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,

THIS VOLUME

IS

DEDICATED

BY

HIS OBEDIENT AND FAITHFUL SERVANT,

THE AUTHOR.

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IT is the prevailing disposition of the times to consider every thing which has been long established as not merely capable of amendment, but as absolutely requiring reform; and in that unlimited toleration which it is the boast of this country to extend to all religious opinions, it was not to be expected that the Established Church should altogether escape the influence of such a feeling. There are, indeed, many persons who openly avow their opinion that she, in every way, stands in need of a great and

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