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Excerpt from A Vindication of a Book, Intituled, a Brief Account of Many of the Prosecutions of the People Called Quakers, &C., Presented to the Members of Both Houses of Parliament: In Answer to Late Examination Thereof, So Far as the Clergy of the Diocese of Canterbury Are Concerned in It; With an Appendix, Demonstrating, That Tithes Are an Oppression to the Husbandman, a Burden Too Heavy for Him to Bear, and Undoeth
The Examiner's grand Defign appears to be, that of irritating the Government againf't the Qua hers: This, with thinking Men, is a manife? Symptom of a difirefi'ed Caufe, and an Indication, that, while the Advocates of the Clergy have the Vanity to proclaim their own Writings unan /werahle, then'rfelves don't think foz For, the Power of the Magi/irate is a Weight which the Clergy do nos. Nfisally throw into the Scale, till they fee that truth is turning its Balance a gainft them.
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