If even, when embodied into congregations, they limited their principle to their own congregations, and were satisfied themselves to abstain from what they thought unlawful, it would be cruel, in my opinion, to molest them in that tenet, and a consequent practice.
Burke expresses that it would be unjust to interfere with congregations that limit their practices to their own beliefs.
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