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The mighty action which we are calling for cannot be based on a disregard of all things worth fighting for. Nor is there any thing unlawful in allowing one people an advantage over another in this respect , particularly for a nation who has taken another under her protection and incurred expence on that account . For when God exacts our penalties by little and little , he makes our payment for these things easy to us ; but when he is long-suffering for each of our negligences , He is storing us up , if we continue in such things , unto a great punishment . They do not consider their church establishment as convenient , but as essential to their state , not as a thing heterogeneous and separable , something added for accommodation , what they may either keep or lay aside according to their temporary ideas of convenience . But even more disturbing than its holding is the tone of the Court 's opinion ; it bristles with hostility to all things religious in public life .