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1820 Feb. 19
Radicalism not dangerous
III Experience
II Ireland
Radicalism - its origin?
Factitious dignity
{Look /Apply it/ to the […?] of Gods word.} Look to these Lords Spiritual. Look to these receptacles of the Holy Holy Ghost who began /after having begun/ with being filled with that unviable[?] and imponderable and inconceivable gas, and the elect among them with being possessed /the possessor/ of a widow’s course[?], from /out of/ which they produce on the part of a number of others withal […?] in equally sufficient plenitude.
Look to these sacred /holy/ receptacles of the Holy Ghost who after declaring themselves so to be, burn /are eager/ to cry blasphemy against and bring destruction upon the audacious miscreant who shall have dared to tell them so, to bring it to their remembrance.
Look to these fleshly /carnal/ receptacles of spiritual gas see the quantity of factitious dignity which along with it has been injected into their sacred bosoms see the quantity of the manner of unrighteousness[?] which has been injected along with it for the support of all that dignity and the piety which so neverfailingly accompanies it /so inseparably adheres to it/: look to the fine linens into[?] which they are clothed /arrayed/ with & the purple in which their very servants are arrayed look to the sumptuous fees which every[?] beclothes[?] /lends/ their titles look to the thrones on which some of them sit look to the palaces which all of them inhabit all for the purpose of shewing what Christian humility is not only by precept but by practice. Look[?] at the quality of faith which they all possess look at the quality of hope which most of them possess /entertain/, virtues by the exuberance[?] of which the desired charity the last and lowest of these virtues is so well understood to be superaded[?].
[Marginal insertion:] who are not to be satisfied unless the facts of the affection[?] be taken for true and for false by the same man at the same time true for the purpose of its being believed, false for the purpose of punishing the man /wretch/ when […?] and audacity has dared to bring it to remembrance.
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