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1252. CHURCH, Regulation of.—

If anything
pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished
in the same manner and no otherwise
than as if it had happened in a fair or market.
These meetings ought not to be sanctuaries
for faction and flagitiousness.—
Notes on Religion. Ford ed., ii, 102.
(1776?)