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 feeling to an intense degree, to see venerable clergymen descending into the arena  attack the statements and sentiments of a. There was reason tor this. book was read by every body, and it the sentiments of toryism in their most imposing and their most apalling form—and  is much that approaches to a degree of  which that sober people will not bear. Nay, the religious public deemed that saw no less than a design to ridicule the  of the martyrs and patriots of the  of Charles II., and to vilify their holy  The description which he has given of  conduct and motives of the military  the personal accomplishments and the  gallantry with which his imagination  clothed the atrocious Claverhouse, do  that there is too much room for the one; and the absurd balderdash and disgusting  which he has put into the mouths of the leading preachers of that age, (and they were mean men,) do altogether show a spirit of  and persecution not to be tamely  to in this enlightened age.