[287] with it, reap'd the Benefits of anEfa- blifment. So that, in general, great Carewas taken of thofe tender Confci- ences that were accompaniedwith quiet Spirits ; or, according to Mr.1V's own Doórine, as far as was thought conff-N'snifory, ent with the Peace of the CTovernmentp 147 they lived under. It could hardly be expected, that thofe whomMr. Fuller calls fierce andfiery should be entrufted with a Power of overturning a well- concertedEftablfhment, which the Go- vernment approved of, and was deter- min'd to fupport. If thofe Men could enflame the Populace thro' the Nation under a Connivance, what could be ex- peeted from them when they acted by a legal Authority? As the Govern- ment, therefore, wasfar from thinking it advifable to fubvert the eflablifhed Church, 'tis no wonder they did not chufe to arm its avow'd Adverfaries with Weapons for its Deftrution. They themfelves clef-wed no Toleration, they exprefly difclaim and refute one, when fomething of that Sort feems to have been intended for them. There is a warm Declaration of theirs fill extant upon this Point, directed to thofe who labour to root out the Weeds of Pope- ry. `` As foryou, dear Brethren, whomPandaReg; " God bath call'd into the Brunte of?. 18. " the
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