THE

Independent Whig:

OR, A

DEFENCE

OF

Primitive Christianity,

And of Our

Ecclefiaftical Eftablishment,

AGAINST

The Exorbitant CLAIMS and
ENCROACHMENTS of Fanatical
and Difaffected CLERGYMEN.

The SEVENTH EDITION.
With ADDITIONS and AMENDMENTS.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

Printed for J. PEELE, and Sold by J. OSBORN
at the Golden Ball in Pater-nofter Row,
M.DCC.XLIII.

THE

INDEPENDENT WHIG.

NUMBER XXXIII.

I

Wednesday, August 31. 1720.

The Ignorance of the High Church Vulgar, and its Caufes.

HAVE always thought the best conftituted Church in the World to be that, which forms and produces the most religious and most rational Members. Churches are Places where Men are, or should be, taught the Love of God, and of Virtue; and when People have been long used to perform divine Discipline, VOL. II. A 2 and›