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 TERRE-FiLIU$. N O XV.. ttic Iratat e Deos 0 Pv.j�R.a'. Jmr. March P'O N the twenty-ninth"oi e  ? r 9, the reverend poetical gentle man, whom I have �everal times- had oeeafion to mention, preach'el ,' a notable fermon upon this (as we find it written ir the thirteenth chapter of the prophet" ttofea, and 'at the ninth' ver,) 0: libel,' tbo haft' droyed thy ]3If, but in me is thine help., From which words he undertook to prove, that' ELat,, our modern !jqae!, had al.fo de ro 'd it el or (as he more elegantly worded t) was gmlty civil and I'piritual lyCmurder ; which.he intrduc'd' by oblirvi"ng, that as when a tingle perfort falk his,otto hands, or, (as the text flys,) de. firoys himj}lf :  it s call'd fimp!ej31f-murder5 �o, when a whole civil' locicry falls by its own hands, or deflroys it191 f, it is' civil klf murder; and fo-agin, when  uhole etta- blifh'd church falh b its own hands, or defiroys itfil it is (otritul �el�.murde, A{ vhat pa�culr time our Brlgi l/9ael bru'd its hands inks own blood, he thought it

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