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I Always underſtood, That the Toleration was meant as an Indulgence to Tender Conſciences, not a Licenſe for Hard’ned Ones.
The Act preventing Occaſional Conformity corrects only a particular Crime, of particular Men: It concerns no other Sect of Diſſenters but thoſe Followers of Judas, who come to the Lord’s Supper, only to Sell and Betray Him.
This Crime, however palliated or defended, even by ſo many Reverend Fathers of the Church, is no leſs than making the God of Truth, as it were in Perſon, ſubſervient to Acts of Hypocriſy: No leſs than ſacrificing the myſtical Body and Blood of our Saviour, to worldly and ſiniſter Purpoſes. An Impiety of the higheſt Nature! which,
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