The Independent Whig (Volume 1); Or, a Defence of Primitive Christianity and of Our Ecclesiastical Establishment Against the Exorbitant Claims and Encroachments of Fanatical and Disaffected Clergymen - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1736. Excerpt: ... T O T H E LOWER HOUSE OF CONVOCATION. YO U, Gentlemen, who are the Representatives of the Clergy of England, are proper Patrons of a Work, which treats of Religion and the Clergy. It is written to promote Liberty. Virtue and Piety; the Interests of which, I hope, you will always espouse, and esteem as your own; and will consequently approve my Design, and give me your Thanks, whatever may have been the Success of my Endeavours. The many wild and unscriptural Claims started, and impetuously maintained by very many of those whom you represent (and I wish I could say denied though but faintly, by any considerable Number of others) gave Occasion to the following Sheets; and. having in them shewn to my Brethren, the Laity the Absur« dity and Impiety of those Claims, by Arguments fetch ed from Reason, the Gospel, and the Laws of our."; Country; I shall, in this Address to your selves, endea-j vour to convince you, that it is your Interest to drop ft them; and if I can succeed in this Point, I presume, that all other Arguments may be useless. p These Gentlemen, in the Heat of their Demands and Contention for Power, have gone so far towardj Rome, and borrowed so many of her Principles, that I o see no other Medium left for them, but either to pro /' ceed on in their Journey thither, (which, as they have-ifJS A a managed managed Matters, is now a very short one) or to turn back to the Principles of the Reformation (a very long Journey, I confess!) and accept of the Bishop of Bangor's Scheme, as much as they hate it and him. That Scheme, though it may not be altogether so palatable, yet is a safe Scheme And though it does not entitle them to all the Power and Wealth in England, yet it secures to them what they have. Consider, Gentlemen, that you cannot tak...

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