. Reasons against repealing the Occasional, and Test Acts, and admitting the Dissenters to places of trust and power : occasion'd by reading the 6th chap. of a pamphlet called, The state-anatomy of Great Britain : to which is added, An answer to the most material arguments brought by the Dissenters and their friends for their admission into offices. hichwould be expelled with igiiominv or contejiipt by enlightenedrenovators of the law? Thus feeling,—and believing that, in advocating, to the bestof their ability their own particular claims,they are serving the ge-neral causf of freedom and iil)


. Reasons against repealing the Occasional, and Test Acts, and admitting the Dissenters to places of trust and power : occasion'd by reading the 6th chap. of a pamphlet called, The state-anatomy of Great Britain : to which is added, An answer to the most material arguments brought by the Dissenters and their friends for their admission into offices. hichwould be expelled with igiiominv or contejiipt by enlightenedrenovators of the law? Thus feeling,—and believing that, in advocating, to the bestof their ability their own particular claims,they are serving the ge-neral causf of freedom and iil)erality,—the Dissentersof England respectfully, but earnestly, call upon the Legislatureto take the obnoxious statutes before referred to, into its con-sideration;—to relieve this country from the reproach, whichbelongs to her alone, of profaning (as they humbly conceive)the holy ordinances of Christianity fyr secnlaF ends ;—and todeclare and act upon those great principles of religious liberty,v\ hich in so many other countries have been already recognized,and which are, in their judgment, essential to the peace andvirtue and happiness of mankind. ROBERT ^VIlSTEIl, Searlar!/.U>, Bedford Row. r I lilted by !;T uiil iU ki<N. JtJ \. l5<i, Lejdunliiill-?irctt. I^ ^?e^lcfv? ?^^-^Sr*^-—?•Si^Sssv.


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