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The Substance of a Council Held at Lancaster - 5

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1st. A Law establishing our Kirk by Sessions, Presbytaries and Synods, with all the Appendages of Presbyterianism.

2dly. A Law rating every Taxable, of whatever Denomination, towards supporting our Ministers; and you all know how much we ought to have this at Heart, as Numbers of us can scarce afford a Dram of Whisky in the Morning.

3dly. A Law obliging every Body to attend our Worship under Pain of Corporal Punishment for the first Offence, and hanging for the second; this will oblige the Heathenish Quakers; the papistical Church of England; the ignorant and stupid Dutch (whom we have now got fast in a Halter, and upon whose Credulity we have artfully imposed, by spreading some seasonable, political Romances about the Country) to attend our places of Worship; and will be the happy means of adding many Souls to our Number.

4thly. A Law prohibiting all carnal Conversation between Men and their Wives on the Sabbath-Day, least the Flesh shou'd be more powerfull than the Spirit. For the first Offence, £. 5 to the Minister; for the second, Excommunication from the Conversation of all Mankind, and to be given over to Satan to

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