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Hume informs us that the Quakers derided the holiness of churches, “and they would give to these sacred edifices no other appellation than that of shops or steeple-houses.” In a ballad entitled, “A Psalm of Mercy,” [Jan. 26, 1660,] (Pol. Bal. Percy Soc.) occur the following lines:—
The steeple-house lands are ours,Kings, queens, delinquents too, &c., &c.
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