Those of you who have robbed the clergy think that they shall easily reconcile their conduct to all Protestant nations, because the clergy whom they have thus plundered, degraded, and given over to mockery and scorn, are of the Roman Catholic, that is, of their own pretended persuasion.
Burke criticizes those who believe they can justify robbing the clergy to Protestant nations, highlighting hypocrisy.
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