On Attending the Church Service (1771) [ Practices ]
… if they did not wholly refrain from the public worship, yet they attended it with pain; abhorring the Priests while they honoured the sacrifice. 10. And have we any proof that the Priests who succeeded them were more holy than them, than … purpose, (yea, and in Protestant as well as Romish countries) are nevertheless far more devoted to the world, to riches, honour, or pleasure, (a few comparatively excepted) than they are to God: So that in truth they are as far from Christian …
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