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The most material Objection is, That the Dissenters, whom we ought not to provoke, will expound our not Reading it, to be the effect of a Persecuting Spirit: Now I wonder Men should lay any weight on this, who will not allow the most probable consequences of our Actions,
to have any influence upon Conscience; for if we must compare con∣sequences, to disoblige all the Nobility and Gentry by Reading it, is likely to be much more fatal, than to anger the Dissenters; and it is more likely, and there is much more reason for it, that one should be offended than the other: For the Dissenters who are Wise and Consi∣dering, are sensible of the Snare themselves, and though they desire Ease and Liberty, they are not willing to have it with such apparent hazard of Church and State: I am sure that though we were never so desirous that they might have their Liberty, (and when there is op∣portunity of shewing our Inclinations without danger, they may find that we are not such Persecutors as we are represented,) yet we cannot consent that they should have it this way, which they will find the dearest Liberty that ever was granted.