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The absurdity of a set of opinions, is the best
reason in the world, against their being forced
upon a man: but is none at all, against
his being forced obliged to part with them.
Write down what you please - ransack all
the superstitions of in the universe for absurdities: pick out the most exquisite by the same way means that you get these
subscribed you may get those: men would
find conclusive arguments enough in the defences writings of the orthodox,
if they found none in the necessity of their
situation.
His reason is gone — Time was
when he might have refused to have delivered
it up to those who demanded it at his
hands: But that time is over: it is now
too late — he has parted sold with it: it is his
no longer.
The advocates for Subscriptions have 2 points
to prove.
1st That the performance of the moral duties
upon which depends the temperol happiness of
the state, depends upon the points opinions <add>propositions</add> subscribed
to being believed.
2. That the obliging persons to subscribe to
them is the way to get them believed.
3. That the benefit to the state from the
belief of those opinions propositions is greater than
the detriment to it from the hardship
imposed, on men to believe them.
I have little prospect of touching their
callous hearts — Men grown grey in
profanation - - - - -
Supposing a man youth to have served a seven years
apprenticeship to a Watchmaker - When
His time out - he has worked with diligence
& studied with ingenuity - he has made himself the weaving trade
master of his Art - he has a little capital
of his own - & he his heart glows with satisfaction at
the thoughts that the time is come at hand when he may he touches upon the time
set up for himself & acquire make an honest livelyhood.
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That the same men Who stand up so staunch for the purity
of faith. Whose conscience is of that
delicate texture as to start at the smallest extreme delicacy
deviation from the rule of right in matters
of opinion. that the same men should
go on in the continual practise, of executing
Paths, of which the destiny, they know, are sure
is to be broken - - - - - -
When men go on during a course of years
with perfect composure & constant regularity
breaking oaths themselves, & causing them to
be broken by others, it is so one may without much
scandal, they care not what oaths they take, it is no great scandal to say of them
not what they break
When men give themselves out
- - - - as the chosen supports of Religion
to whose opinions other men are to be compelled
to conform, & [to] whose examples + they are (+ are to be hung up for their imitation
to be exhorted to imitate.
What more signal corruption could make
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it's way among our youth by the neglect
of their preceptors, than is thus instilled
into them, by their care?
A question that naturally occurrs is, who RANDOLPH
is this all-sufficient personage, who brooks
so ill the idea of his fallibility? Is it some
King of France, some Pope, some Emperor of Morocco? No- it is greater China
still than any of these - It is a man [who
is] at the head of 30 or 40 Scholars in an
Oxford College.
They will say in invitation of divine - - -
Not my cause, but the cause of truth, prevents
Not my will,Truths, but thine be done - One will
and another will - Say ye Puppers of
that divine Arithmetic which is contrary to
the human, how many Wills does that
make?
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