for themselves, because by that sort of Rob∣bery, they not only destroy their own Souls, but also those of the people, whom they have bewitched and besotted, ruining besides a vast number of Families; and thus by their perni∣cious Example, instruct and bring up all the World to Imposture, Cheating and Hypcrisie, and make people to conceive Monstrous Opi∣nions of the Deity, by transforming the same either into a Brutish Idol that hath no under∣standing, or into a Daemon as wicked as possi∣ble.So that all being considered, I do verily believe, that without reckoning the Scandal occasioned by these disorders, there was no less than one third of loss to the Kingdom, by those 40 or 50 Millions which all those Cheats brought to the Popish Clergy of France before this War.If it be said, that there are many other use∣less lewd Fellows, that plunder the State as well as the Clergy, that does not one whit excuse them, nor those who suffer such disor∣ders, and might easily prevent them. But on the contrary, the more there are of others, the ewer there ought to be suffered of these who are doubly hurtful, as being contrary to the Salvation of the peoples Souls, and the Welfare of the Government.The II. Article relates to the excessive multitude of Ecclesiasticks in France, which are six to one in England, their respective pro∣portions and extents being considered, (and
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