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Suppose the 39
Articles fairly engrossed
upon a
paper,

Reward for
Falsehood

Suppose a Proclamation [to be made issued] by
authority that any one who man who has a mind to set his
hand to that paper might may have £100 —
And suppose, to palliate for a moment the
absurdity of such a the 1st, let us make another supposition, that the
Stock of virtue and the notion was such as
left no room to apprehend a bounty offer'd
on such terms would exhaust the stock
of money — One may easily see, that the
motive to subscription would not be a whit
less delicate or less pure in such a case
than they are at present — They would
be much more so. The difference between
£100 and nothing be it what or of much
more than 100£ and nothing is not so great
as the difference between nothing & a chance in that
Lottery where there are no blanks and where
the lowest prize is of itself a subsistence, and the
high ones though which after a long a long & numerous gradation
end in 10,000£ a year added as an approximate
to the first of the state. Where
many an adventurer, (without the benefit
of Mr Molesworth's calculation) is secure
of 5 or 600 £ a year the moment he
puts in.

Where, to all, the resentment of parents,
Parents, family friends
Tutors, coeval apren
the [coolness] of relations and family
friends, the frown of Tutors, the scorn of
giddy aprentis is the punishment for refusing
co-æval
to put in.

the assurance of shaming
or at least the
precariousness of
living,

If they who without hesitating, would ascribe
to lucre subscriptions in the case supposed
should not be ashamed to ascribe it to conviction in the case
subsisting, what opinion ought all the
world to have either of their veracity, or else their
common sense?

Here and there you
will meet with a
stickler for orthodoxy
who alledges that salvation
of souls & not the money as his
motive for entering
into the possession

Those pretensions of the orthodox would cease to
to be treated with merit that scorn that is due to palpable
imposture, when we see men destitute of other
provision, surrender those emoluments.

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The end of it all
is,
...To be called a Deists + for sacrificing all to
+ in other words that is,
a monster possessed
by the Devil
conscience — According to this account the
matter between the Orthodox and Deists stands
thus — Of the Deist you are certain that
he is a man of conscience — Of the Orthodox
you can not demonstrate ++ that he
++ (that is mathematically
demonstrate)
is not so.

It enfeebles
the understanding

It is with the organs of the mind as of the
body? [+] bind up the limb, it shrinks and is enfeebled.
[+] In the one as in
the other all vigour
is dependent upon
exercise.
What follows? He knows feels his weakness —
he perceives he has lost a part of himself — A sort of Instinct
teaches him to shrink from the grand
career of sound Politics and Morality (which is
the same) the noblest of all, which no man can
tread with dignity without the vigour & independence, & full mastery
of his undiminished faculties. powers. He shrinks
from it, as he would from the covering of a
mine.

Or if he ventures, how does he proceed? He how is it that he ventures? You
goes see him sidling and figetting and leering, with
the face of a crab, and the eyes of a mole
or of a serpent, and with the countenance of
a malefactor driven [with his hands hid behind
him] to execution.
stumbling perpetually
either against
orthodoxy or common
sense.

Ironclad form
of Subscription

ThNew Form of Subscription proposed —
J. A. B. do sincerely promise and swear

He hears a voice incessantly crying out to
him from the clouds, "Take care of my
cobwebs."

That I will not look for the truth — that if
I meet it by accident in the way, I will
turn aside from it. That my word shall
be at perpetual variance with my thoughts,
or else that I will not think at all.
That I will hear only the arguments on one side — or if
I hear the other, which shall only be in the
view to answer them, I will keep my
temper worked up to a fit of spleen against
them all the while — I renounce impartiality
as the abettor of all falshood —
I embrace prejudice, as the safeguard of all
truth.

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