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Rh books from time to time to the flames, that is, books written against themselves. The ministry, which is now compos'd of Whigs, does not so much as allow those gentlemen to assemble, so that they are at this time reduc'd (in the obscurity of their respective parishes) to the melancholy occupation of praying for the prosperity of the government, whose tranquillity they would willingly disturb. With regard to the bishops, who are twenty six in all, they still have seats in the house of lords in spite of the Whigs, because the ancient abuse of considering them as Barons subsists to this day. There is a clause however in the oath which the government requires from these gentlemen, that puts their christian patience to a very great trial, viz. that they shall be of the Church of England as by law establish'd. There are few bishops, deans, or other dignitaries, but imagine they are so jure divino; 'tis consequently a great mortification to them to be oblig'd to confess, that they owe their dignity to a pitiful law enafted by a sett of profane laymen. A Rh