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Civil Liberty, &c.
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sert his own Right of private Judgment, in Opposition to the Opinion of another:—

If these Outrages should be publicly committed by some; and winked at or countenanced, or patronized by others;—surely, all honest Men ought to joyn, in declaring their Abhorrence of such atrocious Acts of Licentiousness and Faction, perpetrated in Defiance of All Laws, both human and divine.

SECT.XXII.

Some Objectious obviated.

SHOULD it be objected to the Writer, that while he blames the Practice in others He indiscriminately characterizeth whole Bodies of Men who dissent from public Measures; he would reply, that the Accusation is groundless: For he hath expressly distinguished Those who dissent on Principles of Liberty, from such as