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THE

INDEPENDENT WHIG:

OR, A

DEFENCE

OF

Primitive Christianity,

And of our

Ecclefiaftical Establishment,

AGAINST

The Exorbitant CLAIMS and
ENCROACHMENTS of Fanatical
and Disaffected CLERGYMEN.

THE FIFTH EDITION.
With ADDITIONS and AMENDMENTS.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

Printed for J. PEELE, at Locke's Head in
Amen-Corner, Pater-noster-row; and Sold
by J. OSBORN, at Dock-Head, near Rother-
bith. M.DCC.XXXII.

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THE

INDEPENDENT WHIG.

NUMBER XXXIII.

Wednesday, August 31. 1720.

The Ignorance of the High-Church Vulgar, and its Causes.

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Have always thought the best constituted Church in the World to be that, which forms and produces the most religious and most rational Members. Churches are Places

where Men are, or should be, taught the Love of God, and of Virtue; and when People have been long used to perform divine Discipline, and, as they imagine, receive Instruction in Moral and Evangelical Duties, in these stately VOL. II.

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