1821 Feb. 12

Jug. Util

7

Introduction or Ch.1.

*7

(2)

In vain would /the attention be drawn from the heathen/ reference be made to the Christian world: the argument would not be mended. To the Neros the Caligulas the Commodus’s the Caracullas would now be to be substituted the Henry the 8 th

Henry VIII (1491–1547), King of England from 1509 and King of Ireland from 1541.

the Charles the ninth, the Philip the 2 nd the Christiana Probably Christina (1626–89), Queen of Sweden 1632–54, who abdicated in 1655 and was received into the Roman Catholic Church. the | | s. The /rock/ security the supposed /sole/ only security against anarchy and destruction would have to boe the compass with every wind /[...?] [...?]/ by which the course taken by the/ belief of a Henry the eighth was changed: it would consist of a mixture of Catholicism and Protestantism under Henry the eighth of Protestantism under Edward the 6 th of Catholicism under Mary; of Church of Englandism, under Elizabeth, James I and Charles I; of a mixture of Catholicism and Atheism under Charles the 2 d.

Under the Guelphes no less than under the Stuarts, the Monarch is indeed Most Excellent—believe (himself) as he may still and not the less most excellent. He is so, and /not only/ most gracious and /but/ most religious by the most incontrovertible titles—by the /Church of/ /[...?]/ Liturgy of the Church of England established by Act of Parliament. Let him stand forth and upon the throne say with the [...?] [...?] /what Charles the 2 d used to /has so often heard and said/ hear and say at table/There is no God still he would not be the less religious. But according to the same incontestable authority the same Most Excellent person, endowed as (we learn from Blackstone that he is) Jb marginal alternative: ‘ + Blackstone upon the [...?] of his [...?] informs /assures/ us.’ he is with so ample a portion of the divine attributes, this most excellent person, who all the time he stands on English ground is so much higher than the Angels, in what is it he is most excellent? In what but in the fruits of original sin that torment which attaches upon him /runs through his veins/ in no less virulence than in those of the meanest

JB marginal note: ‘ + to fall [...?] of which is with all due solemnity conveyed to the /so regularly and [.../]/ [...?] of omniscience’.

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Draw not the attention from the heathen world to the Christian: the argument would not be mended: Hen. 8, Ch.9. Philip 2. Christiene would not mend it. Under Hen.8. mixture of Catholicism under Ed.6. Protestantism: under Mary Catholicism; under Eliz and James I and Ch.1: Church of Englandism; under: Catholicism and Atheism under Ch.2.

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True, under Guelphes as under Stuarts Monarch, believe as he may, Most Excellent. Hence Most Religion by Liturgy and Statue as omniscience is regularly inferred by attributes from Blackstone rendered higher than the Angels.

Yet daily self-confessed not less a miserable sinner than the meanest radical.