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Show 45o ACTS RELATING Part Ill, Sect. Vlll. have written upon full information, and a thorough knowledge of the {object But the loudel‘t clamours have been railed againfi other parts of this act. Re« TO THE Commas. 45: courfe to any fubterfuge, rather than con- . ) fefs that the Rornilh rclivion was 0 /3 (Jul- xii/{flied by this aft-4t is tolerated they faid, but not (flaw/flaili-l‘day one writer found ligious prejudices are, of all, the firongelt out, that the church of 1:..r'zg/izm! was cita- and molt likely to work upon the minds of the people. This topic was, therefore, greedily fcized by oppofition. The horrid blifhed by it. " For the Canadians (fays " he) are to acknowledge the king to be " fupreme head of the church in @ebec, crime, and the dreadful danger of ella- " by the authority of the act of Elizabeth: blilhing popery in fo large a part of his " of whatever c/Jzu'c/z, then the lirl‘t of ll- majel'ty's dominions, has been thundered. in the ears of the king, lords, and cornmons in remonf'trances from very ‘elfgz'our " lizabeth declares the king to be fupreme " head, i/zczz‘ mull be the church eflablilhed " in (kcbec by this act *1" magifirates, and echoed back again to the If this gentleman had turned to the aft public with all the clainour and turbulence of Elizabeth, he would have found that it of .111 enraged and milguided populace. Meantime the defenders of the bill fee-med afraid of fpeaking out. They were will- does not declare the queen to be the head of any particular church. He might have recolleéted too, that what is now called the ing to allow any thing, to have rechurch of England, did not then exil‘t. The 2.0: of uniformity was not par; ‘3‘3 See this part of the bill ably defended by the author of " the Appeal to the Public, {lat" in; and confidering the Objections to the (fixe" bee bill," printed for Payne, 177.5" from page 36 to the end. ed; the queen is lirnply declared "ill:1: ‘ . 4* bee lrifilee and l)Ull‘:‘,' of- this Ac. ullcrzed and )‘r'oved, p, 53, courfe ng "pre |