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 ¬gelical doctrines, one half of the chapels that within a few years have started up and out- numbered your steeples, would probably tumble down of themselves, and as she has not half room enough for her own congregations, she might then build even cathedrals from their ruins, and bring back into her bosom dissenters of all descriptions, who now threaten to swallow her up." ¬I intended this advice to be private, and that it should never travel from thence into our own world, though the gossip of a traveller has re- vealed it ; because, though I sincerely honour the Church of England, and hold by her doctrines, as the purest, and the best, yet I wish that our national religion, as well as our civil state, should be balanced by a popular consti- tution, and that the free spirit of the dissenters should continue. ¬Absurd, enthusiastic ardour ought to be ex- posed and discountenanced, because it brings ¬o 2 religion ¬