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 Number, which would be the neceary Conequence of o dangerous a Privilege, hew more than any thing ele how much Human Governments tood in need of a more olid Bais than that of mere Reaon, and how neceary it was for the public Tranquillity, that the Will of the Almighty hould interpoe to give to overeign Authority a acred and inviolable Character, which hould deprive Subjects of the michievous Right to dipoe of it to whom they pleaed. If Mankind had received no other Advantages from Religion, this alone would be ufficient to make them adopt and cherih it, ince it is the means of aving more Blood than Fanaticim has been the Caue of pilling. But to reume the Thread of our Hypotheis.

The various Forms of Government owe their Origin to the various Degrees of