The Pillars of Priestcraft and Orthodoxy Shaken ...

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Mr. Cadell, Mr. Kearsley, 1768

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الصفحة 261 - Better it were there were no revealed religion, and that human nature were left to the conduit of its own principles and inclinations, which are much more mild and merciful, much more for the peace and happinefs of human fociety, than to be acted by a religion that infpires men with fo wild a fury, and prompts them to commit fuch outrages...
الصفحة 298 - Star-Chamber enlarge their jurisdictions to a vast extent, ' holding (as Thucydides said of the Athenians) for honourable that which pleased and for just that which profited.' And being the same persons in several rooms, grew both courts of law to determine right, and courts of revenue to bring money into the Treasury : the Council-Table by proclamations enjoining...
الصفحة 306 - No man so willingly made unkind use of all those occasions, as the lord Cottington, who being a master of temper, and of the most profound dissimulation, knew too well how to lead him into a mistake, and then drive him into choler, and then expose him upon the matter, and the manner, to the judgment of the company ; and he chose to do this most when the king was present ; and then he would dine with him the next day.
الصفحة 311 - While mass has been said in security, a conventicle has been a crime ; and which is yet more, the conforming to ceremonies has been more exacted than the conforming to Christianity ; and while men for scruples have been undone, for attempts of sodomy they have only been admonished.
الصفحة 298 - ... for the reformation of manners, to a court of revenue, and imposed great fines upon those who were culpable before them ; sometimes above the degree of the offence, had the jurisdiction of fining been unquestionable : which it was not. Which course of fining was much more frequent, and the fines heavier, after the king had granted all that revenue (whatsoever it should prove to be) to be employed for the reparation of St. Paul's church...
الصفحة 298 - Star-Chamber censuring the breach and disobedience to those proclamations by very great fines and imprisonment ; so that any disrespect to any acts of state or to the persons of statesmen was in no time more penal, and those foundations of right by which men...
الصفحة 311 - Mr. Speaker, a little search will serve to find them " to have been the destruction of unity, under pretence " of uniformity — to have brought in superstition and " scandal under the titles of Reverence and Decency " — to have defiled our Church by adorning our " churches — to have slackened the strictness of that " union which was formerly between us and those of " our religion beyond the sea : an action as impolitic " as ungodly. We shall find them to have tithed mint " and anise, and have...
الصفحة 286 - That he faid, the people are not to be lafted by every man's whip. That he faid, citing a national council for it, that the people are God's and the king's, and not the prieft's people. That he does not allow priefts to jeer, and nake invectives againft the people.
الصفحة 261 - MERCIFUL (the) judgments of Highchurch triumphant on offending clergymen, and others, in the reign of Charles I.
الصفحة 298 - State; to the vindicating illegal commiffions, and grants of monopolies, (all which were the chief ground-works of their late proceedings), no man could hope to be longer free from the inquifition of that court, than he refolved to fubmit to thofe, and the like extraordinary courfes. And therefore there was an entire inclination to limit and regulate the proceedings of that court : to which purpofe, a bill was brought in, and twice read, and, according to cuftom, committed. It being...

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