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Christianity Argument Abolishing Satirical Pamphlet Swift Pretending Mild

Front Argument Against Abolishing Christianity
Back a satirical pamphlet
Swift
1711
pretending to be a mild objection to an imaginary campaign to remove Christianity altogether, this ironical performance points out that such a move might be attended with some inconveniences.
it attacks both low churchmen (free thinkers and deists) and high Tories (non- jurors and Jacobites) who together threaten in different ways the strength of the established Anglican church

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