A Comparative Display of the Different Opinions of the Most Distinguished British Writers on the Subject of the French Revolution, Vol. 2 of 3: ... and Comparison With Events (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The teachers who reformed our religion in Eng. Land bore no fort of refemblance to your prefent reforming doctors in Paris. Perhaps they were (like thofe whom they Oppofed) rather more than could be wilhed under the influence of a party fpirit; but they were molt fincere believers men of the molt fervent and exalted piety; ready to die (as fome of them did die), like true heroes in defence of their particular ideas of Chrifiianity as they would with equal fortitude, and more cheerfully, for that flock of general truth, for the branches of which they contended with their blood. Thefe men would have difavowed with horror thofe wretches who claimed a fellowlhip with them upon no Other titles than thofe of their having pil laged the perfons with whom they maintained con. Troverfies, and their having defpifed the common religion, for the purity of which they exerted them.

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