INDEPENDENT WHIG:

OR, A

DEFENCE

OF

Primitive Christianity,

And of our
Ecclefiaftical Establishment,

A G A INST
The Exorbitant CLAIMS and

ENCROACHMENTS of Fanatical
and Disaffected CLERGYMEN.

THE FIFTH EDITION.
With ADDITIONS and AMENDMENTS.

VOL. II.

L O N D ON:
Printed for J. PEEL E, at Locke's Head in

Amen-Corner, Pater nofter-row; and Sold
by J. OSBORN, at Dock-Head, near Rother,
bith. M.DCC.XXXII.

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The Ignorance of the High-Church

Vulgar, and its Causes.

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Have always thought the best constituted Church in the World to be that, which forms and produces 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, and, as they imagine, receive Instruction in Moral and Evangelical Duties, in these stately Vol. II.

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