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testant Jacobites were at War with the Principles of the State: For they held an hereditary and unalienable Right of Kings, founded on certain mistaken Passages of the sacred Scriptures.—A third Body of Men, though they allowed the Necessity and Justice of the Revolution, on the Principle of an Abdication, yet still retained an Opinion at Variance with the State: They asserted an independent Hierarchy, vindicated a religious Intolerance, and on some misconstrued Passages of Scripture, affirmed the Duty of a passive Obedience without Limitation.—A fourth Body was That of some bigoted Dissenters, who not content with a religious Toleration which had been justly granted them, aimed, on a mistaken Principle of Religion, to erect their own System upon the Ruins of the established Church.—All these Parties held religious Principles at Variance with the Laws of Freedom.