Excerpt from The Independent Whig, or a Defence of Primitive Christianity, and of Our Ecclesiastical Establishment, Against the Exorbitant Claims and Encroachments of Fanatical and Disaffected Clergymen, Vol. 1 of 4 C o N s I D r R, Gentlemen, that you cannot take as much of Popery as you pleafe, and leave the reit. Mar/0mm] has long fince told us, that no Government can fubfift long but upon its original Founda tion, and by recurring often to the Princi ples upon which it was firlt founded. It will indeed fiandmpon no other; and when that is lapped and undermined, the Super Rrufture muft fall to the Ground, the Old Inhabitants mult find out new Materials, ereet new Buildings upon other Founda tions, and are, for the molt part, undone by the Experiment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.