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I HAVE received your Letter, with the Epitaph, which it inclosed, and according to your Desire, I will give you my Sentiments on it.
In the first Place, I must premise, that I am most heartily sorry to find this poor divided Province distressed and oppressed, by ambitious designing Men! ‘Till about fifteen Years ago, the Liberties and Privileges of Pennsylvania have been darling Names with the Inhabitants, and esteemed, yea! even envied by all their Neighbours. But alas! times are now changed. PRIESTS, instead of inculcating the Doctrines of the blessed JESUS, the Prince of Peace, who has declared, that his “Kingdom is not of this World,” have become the Minions of arbitrary Power. Dissenting Clergymen, who have refused Christian Communion with Episcopals, have payed implicit Obedience to the Bulls of a standing Council of Presbyterian Bishops in Philadelphia. I have known one in this Neighbourhood, to procure leading Men in
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12016-08-19T12:59:34-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aObservations on a Late "Epitaph" - 31Observations on a late epitaph, : in a letter from a gentleman in the country, to his friend in Philadelphia: Totus in se teres atque rotundus.2016-08-19T12:59:34-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
