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number of dissenting members should ever be so far increased asto constitute a majority of the House of Commons is to me quitean improbable circumstance; I think it a far more likely eventthat, all restraints being removed, the Dissenters will insensiblybecome Churchmen, y Suppose, however, even that improbablecircumstance to take place, and that a majority of the House of Commons has ceased to be Churchmen —what then ? Why thenthe House of Commons may present to the House of Lords a Billfor changing the constitution of the Church of England into thatof the Church of Scotland . Be it so — what then ? Why thenthe House of Commons will compel the House of Lords to agreeto such a Bill; this does not follow; I know not any legal or pro-bable means of effecting such a compulsion; but for the sake ofcoming to a conclusion, let it be admitted that, at some distantperiod of which no man can form a reasonable conjecture, theHouse of Lords would, by compulsion or choice, agree with theHouse of Commons , and that the King would agree with themboth in establishing Presbytery in the room of Episcopacy what then ? Why then the present form of the Church of England would be changed into another ! And is this all ? — this the ca-tastrophe of so many tragical forebodings — this the issue of somany improbable contingencies — this the result of so much un-christian contention — this a cause for continuing distinctions bywhich the persons and properties of peaceful citizens are exposedto the fiery zeal of a senseless rabble?—A great Protestant nationdoes not return to Popery —a great Christian nation does not apos-tatise to Paganism , or Mahometanism ; it simply adopts an eccle-siastical constitution different from what it had before. What isthere in this to alarm any man who liberally thinks with the late