Familiar Letters, Addressed to the Inhabitants of Birmingham, in Refutation of Several Charges Advanced Against the Dissenters and Unitarians |
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... worship . " But Swift * , like the late Dr. Johnson , debased a good natural understanding with the loweft bigotry . He neither knew , nor cared to know , any thing << 66 : * The contemptuous manner in which Swift always mentions Dif ...
... worship . " But Swift * , like the late Dr. Johnson , debased a good natural understanding with the loweft bigotry . He neither knew , nor cared to know , any thing << 66 : * The contemptuous manner in which Swift always mentions Dif ...
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... worship every Lord's - day . Whereas , the fact is , that very few perfons in any confiderable office attend the service of your church at all , except when the duties of their office abfolutely require it . This Test Act , which you ...
... worship every Lord's - day . Whereas , the fact is , that very few perfons in any confiderable office attend the service of your church at all , except when the duties of their office abfolutely require it . This Test Act , which you ...
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... worship God in the forms they most approved , was a valu- able thing . But for this we do not confider ourselves as at all indebted to the church , though the bishops might not vote against it . It was the liberality of the state , in ...
... worship God in the forms they most approved , was a valu- able thing . But for this we do not confider ourselves as at all indebted to the church , though the bishops might not vote against it . It was the liberality of the state , in ...
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... worship as God that which is not God . Do not all Proteftants say it is idolatry in the Catholics to pray to the Virgin Mary , to Peter , Paul , or any other faints , or even to angels and arch- angels ? Do you not continually charge ...
... worship as God that which is not God . Do not all Proteftants say it is idolatry in the Catholics to pray to the Virgin Mary , to Peter , Paul , or any other faints , or even to angels and arch- angels ? Do you not continually charge ...
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... worship , maintaining their poor , & c . But all these expences , great as they were , were defrayed by voluntary contribution . It will be faid that , in that age , there was no civil power that could be applied in favour of ...
... worship , maintaining their poor , & c . But all these expences , great as they were , were defrayed by voluntary contribution . It will be faid that , in that age , there was no civil power that could be applied in favour of ...
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