The Substance of a Council Held at Lancaster - 5
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
