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them. Give me letters to the synagogue at Damascus, said Paul to the High Priest, whilst under the influence of an imagination heated with mistaken zeal, which "breathed threaten"ings and slaughter against the disciples," and I will bring both men and women, who hold this new doctrine, bound in chains to your tribunal,-Convinced that their religion is perfect, what does the zeal of the catholics want but letters of power, to enable it to imitate the example of persecuting Paul? Do not catholics everywhere look upon protestantism with angry feelings? Can it be otherwise, when they see it instrumental in overturning their images, and in bringing their interior worship of saints and crosses into ridicule and contempt ? Man is never more alive to pain, than when his religious opinions are touched :-and no words can better describe the acuteness of that pain than these words of St. John :-the violence of it is such, that it makes men

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