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The honorable gentleman thinks that the Dissenters enjoy a large share of liberty under a connivance; and he thinks that the establishing toleration by law is an attack upon Christianity.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the notion that Dissenters' liberty is merely a result of legal toleration, viewing it as a threat to Christianity.
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