THE

OR, A

DEFENCE

OF

Primitive Christianity,

And of Our

Ecclefiaftical Establishment,

AGAINST

The Exorbitant CLAIMS and

EN CROACHMENTS of Fanatical
and Disaffected CLERGYMEN.

The SEVENTH EDITION.
With ADDITIONS and AMENDMENTS.

V O L. II.

L O N D ON:
Printed for J. PEELE, and Sold by J. OSBORN
at the Golden Ball in Pater-noster Row,

M.DCC.XLIII.

The Ignorance of the High Church

Vulgar, and its Causes.

HAVE always thought the best constituted Church in the World

to be that, which forms and proCO

duces the most religious and most rational Members. Churches are places where Men are, or should be, taught the Love of 'God, and of Virtue ; and when People have been long used to perform divine Discipline, VOL. II.

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