They do not consider their Church establishment as convenient, but as essential to their state: not as a thing heterogeneous and separable,--something added for accommodation,--what they may either keep up or lay aside, according to their temporary ideas of convenience.
Burke explains the English perspective that the Church establishment is fundamental and inseparable from the state, not a matter of temporary convenience.
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