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 the credit of your Specimen." — Apology for the Church Hist. &c., being a Reply to * * *, a Specimen of Amendments, &c., under the fictitious name of Clerophilus Alethes. [Constable] 1742, p. 204.

I conclude this exposure of the policy — the unlimited and all-penetrating policy — of Rome, as respects religious and even other literature, wherever her interest is concerned, with the moral, of no trifling importance, that it becomes every Christian individual to be well aware of the subtilty of his most inveterate and very powerful foe; and that it eminently behoves every Christian government to understand, and guard against, the necessary hostility and machinations of the same foe, and, as its only security, to break through and cripple its ; insisting that its operations shall be subject to legal inspection and effectual regulation. For it is intolerable, that, in a simply Christian state, there should be fostered, enjoying its best blessings, a corporation or faction, necessarily and illimitably of hostile interests and feelings, and of sworn enmity to its religion, and that, to the same corporation or faction should be allowed, as a divine claim, the unshackled liberty of communicating