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A Letter From a Clergyman in Town - 4

whether the Letters of a Name is used in spelling it, whether the O’Haras are called O’Haras, or the O left out, and they are called Haras; or whether the O’Rielys, are called only Riely’s, yet they are all the same Family, and always attended Mass in Ireland, whatever they may do in Pennsylvania.

If I can trace the Dislike of some of my Hearers from any Thing, it is from this their Education. They have been taught to love Bishops, a Relict of Popery; and tho’ I do not act under one now, and do in my Heart not altogether join in with them, yet I see no Reason for their Hatred, seeing that I wrote to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, to get my Lord of London to License me in St. Paul’s, agreeable to their Minds, which his Lordship refused, and made it not my Fault. I cannot conceive what the People would be at; I am daily doing all the good I can; the other Day when nobody could do it, I silenced the Paxton Boys, and brought them over to Peace; and yet after all, even the Quakers abused me.---What will not these Roman-Catholick do to get me out of the Church; they want an Assistant to me, to force me out; but I hope the LORD will stand up for me, and enable me to fight his Battles.

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