The Independent Whig: Or, a Defence of Primitive Christianity, and of Our Ecclesiastical Establishment, Against the Exorbitant Claims and Encroachments of Fanatical and Disaffected Clergymen (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Independent Whig: Or, a Defence of Primitive Christianity, and of Our Ecclesiastical Establishment, Against the Exorbitant Claims and Encroachments of Fanatical and Disaffected Clergymen

Consider, Gentlemen, that you cannot take as much of Popery as you pleafe, and leave the reit. Machiavel' has long fince told us, that no Government can fubfifi: long but upon its original Foundation, and by recurring often to the Principles upon which it was firit founded It will indeed {tand upon no Other, and when that 18 fapped and undermined, the Superf'truc ture mufi: fall to the Ground, the old Inhabi tants muft find out new Materials, erect new Buildings upon other Foundations, and are, for the mopc part, undone by the Experiment.

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