Maddox - BX9329 M3 1740

163 the Wifdom of the Nation, for the Support of the Proteflant Religion. 'Tis not at all pretended or alledged, even by Mr. N. that the Refitfers of the Habits were intuited or abufed by the conforming Clergy, who had the Laws on their Side, and abed in Obe- dience to them. While on the other Hand, peaceable Subjehs were mobb'd in the Streets, reviled as they went along, and their Faces fpit in, ONLY becaufe they appear'd in a Habit ap- pointed by proper Authority to diflin- guiJh their Profefon. It muff be an unpleafant Circumftance to every good Mind to obferve, that this Fire, which inflamed the _Nation, was kindledat the Altar ; that the Populace did little more than praui¡e the Leffons their ad- mir'dLeaders taught them : We have force Account of this in Mr. Strype two Years before the Government proceed- ed in the Affair. " For Matters Ec- vol. t. p.34s: " clefiaflical, which be ind erent,A".176Z. " there be fame Preachers which can- " not abide them, but do murmur, cc fpurn, kick, and very fharply do in- CC veigh againft them ; naming them " Things of Iniquity, Devilifh and " Papiflical One Preacher not " of the bafer Sort or Eflimation, did " glory and boafl that he made Eight M 2 "Ser-

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