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A Serious Address (First Edition) - 11

break his Teeth.— Besides, as ’tis currently reported, that these Outrages, Tumults and Insurrections have been excited, executed, and abetted, principally and chiefly, if not altogether, by Persons dissenting from the Church established in England; it is too likely, if they are repeated and encouraged, that every Person who would bear an Office must conform to the Rites of that Church, in the same Manner as in England.

FROM all these Hints, which I have thrown together, without Order or Method, I hope you will be convinced, that it is your Duty to Use your Influence with these deluded People, to desist from their intended Enterprize; and that you will endeavour to convince them of their Error in what they have already done. Why should they be rendered desperate by having a Price set upon their Heads, like Wolves? Why should they have a Mark set upon them; and wander like Fugitives and Vagabonds in continual Fear? Or why should we be put to the Expence of Maintaining an Army in Time of Peace, which we

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