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Excerpt from The Four Gospels, Translated From the Greek, Vol. 1 of 2: With Preliminary Dissertations, and Notes Critical and Explanatory
An outcry was raifed, particularly in Scotland, on this fubjeét, which afterwards led to the commi¿ion of great atrocities. Dr campbell-had, in the two difcourfes already mentioned, expreded his mo¿: decided abhorrence of Popery, pointing out its oppofition to the fpirit of true Chrif'tianity, and had provoked its adherents in a high degree but he confidered the zeal againfi it prevailing at that time in this country, the means ufed to excite it, and the way in which it was exprefied, as too fimilar in their nature and effeéis to the caufe they oppofed. Many wife and worthy men, equally friends with him to religious toleration, and averfe to refirain falfe reli gion, a: fizcb, by temporal penalties, were yet how ever difihrently minded from the Doé'tor; and re-v plies, fome of them more, and others-leis tempe rate and able, were publiihed to his Addrefs,which without regard to its immediate objeét, mufi be allowed to contain much found arguinent, mofi ad mirably exprefiéd, equally diélated by jufi policy, as by the doélrine of the New Tefiament.
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