A Letter From a Clergyman in Town - 3
SIR,
TO account to you for the diabolical Disposition of my Hearers, is beyond the Reach of my Capacity, however I will try.
You know that I was bred in the Presbyterian Church, and as the Founder of our Sect, made a greater Leap from the Romish Church, than the Establish’d Church has done, by tearing off all the Lace at once, and denying the Power of Bishops, of Course we must be hated more than those deriv’d from Luther, by those who have been bred in that Way.
The Macs you know are a noble dignified Race in the Irish Annals, famed for their intire Renunciation of Popery; while the O’s are rank Roman-Catholics, and Native Irish that trot in our Bogs. It is immaterial