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y u ought to be supposed to know y e foundations of 

 y r - Relligion, &c. 



" Now, Sir, you will think it hard to be told by one 

 who is no clergyman y l - if you realy think as you 

 now write you do not know y e foundation of any 

 Relligion, for I am sure that ever since I have heard 

 of y e name of Catholick and Protestant, y e later, 

 especially y e Church of England, have always mightily 

 boasted of their great and extensive Charity in allow- 

 ing salvation to all Relligions as well as their own ; 

 when, at y e same time, the Roman Catholick is re- 

 proched for not having the same extensive charity, 

 especially by those who cannot, or, at least, will not 

 make distinction between material hereticks and formal 

 hereticks, y e Later of w ch - are such as do continue per- 

 versely and obstinately to live and die in an error, 

 even contrary to y e conviction of their own consciences 

 (and I fear y l - there are to many such in y e world), 

 those, indeed, y e Church does condemn. But of all 

 the knowing, sincere, honest clergymen y l - I have 

 heard talk on this subject (w ch< are not a few), I never 

 met with any that deny'd salvation to y e R. C. Church ; 

 therefore, Sir, as this is y e case, give me leave to con- 

 clude, that if y r - child or my child, or any one's child 

 (who is not in very opulent circumstances) sh d - meet 

 w th. a friend^ so kind and good as to take 'em off our 

 hands and breed 'em in such a way as they may save 

 their souls and also be decently provided in this world, 

 I think we have no reason to be uneasy and clamorous. 

 Moreover, cou'd you be so weak as to imagine that 

 when y ou sent y r - daughter to a monastery, that she 

 was to be there taught y e Protestant Relligion ? If 

 so, I am very sorry for this, as well as all other in- 

 firmitys w ch> you complain of in y r - last, and wish y ou 

 well rid of 'em all. 



" Who am, Sir, your well wisher, &c, 

 " P. CARYLL." 



