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46 Terre-Filiu'. dar'd to think themfelves wrong'd, and atterted the birthright ok' free Engl?men, and of free Chriltian;, to think fi)r themfeivesi and fuch a 1tir hat, ethef: made already, that divers off their mothers be?d fer. rants are very much ahrm'd at it, and are fludying ways to keep all fuch dangerous enemies to tound education, as freedom of fpeecb and thouggt, out 0F their family. Thanks be to God, this detign hag not been wholIv brought about l but theth enemic? of ours have fciw'd fo many tares among the grain, that our country, to whom the benefit of thouid belong, cry aloud for their right, Oh tkm tl.e lord of the oarveil would come, that he might de. flroy the la3o?,rs of ti. el$ ill-dej?ning men, that to whom the t?ower is given, would fiparate the from the e?il. There is no expe&ing that weeds which have ken deep root. and begun to feem part of the fi:ould t< pick'd away bit by bit: the blydr? is no: to be de?roy'd, unlel} you firike off all the heads once i for whiif? you are lopping off one, another of coutfe fucceeds: and ?o apply; if' you were to turn out one Jacobite H--d of a college, another as bad is ready to ?ep in his room. I ?zl] not make their principles in {late the fubje& of' my preiint difcourfe? I have gi��n rome account of them in a late paperi and, indeed, if I had not, they are too flagrantly fpread abroad to need my difp'.aying; it is enough to dwell upon the long and uninzerrupted �cene of more pri':.,ate enor- mities, to conrider and ?ecommend to ev. ery confideration v:hat has been, and mutt. be, the c0r.- t?quence on the lives of E;:gliflm:en, from an cd,?- cation confitting in tolerated ignorance and all fo?t; of immorality. tNs, I think. ought not to be tedi and I, in the name of the prefent age and terity, call loudly upon every one of my country' men, who is, or hoN:s to be, the parent or dif?.0-