THE object of the following Dialogue is to expose, in familiar language,
the absurd arguments by which political Dissenters attempt to justify
their deeds of hatred against the Established Church, and their union
with Papists and Infidels—with every wild boar out of the forest of
irreligion and error—in attempting to root up a vine, under the shadow of
which they have long reposed in security and peace.
Several persons having expressed their approval of this Tract, the writer
has been led to print this second and enlarged edition of it for general
circulation, omitting those local allusions which were introduced to make
the work more interesting in his own neighbourhood, and which succeeded
in rendering its circulation extensive among those for whose information
it was first printed.
He trusts that the plain arguments here brought forward, may tend, in
some small degree, to remove unfounded and ignorant prejudices against
the Established Church, believing it, as he does, to be the bulwark of
our national Christianity, and the fortress of our civil and religious
liberties.