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QUERIES
RELATING TO
THE SACRAMENTAL TEST.
WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1732.
query, WHETHER hatred and violence between parties in a state, be not more inflamed by different views of interest, than by the greater or lesser differences between them, either in religion or government?
Whether it be any part of the question at this time, which of the two religions is worse, popery or fanaticism; or not rather, which of the two (having both the same good will) is in the hopefullest condition to ruin the church?
Whether the sectaries, whenever they come to prevail, will not ruin the church as infallibly and effectually as the papists?
Whether the prevailing sectaries could allow liberty of conscience to dissenters, without belying all their former practice, and almost all their former writings?
Whether many hundred thousand Scotch presbyterians are not fully as virulent against the episcopal church, as they are against the papists; or as
