Sacrilege

.—To deprive God’s viceregents here on earth, the clergy, of a tittle of their possessions would be sacrilege; “they toil not, neither do they spin,” but they do much more, they provide for us eternal salvation, in a snug birth in the other world, merely by a word or two, spoke in a canting drant, and with those additional and irresistable pleaders in favour of their petition, “the lifted whites of both of their eyes;” and for such a kind office as this, they ought to have a tenth of the produce of all human industry, and a tenth of the bountiful gifts of nature.