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SUBSCRIPTION. Difference of effect on Lay-men and Churchmen
What makes the difference of the effect of this engagement Subscriptions
upon Laymen 2 and Clergy 1 men, is
that to the first <add></add> are [generally] expected to stand to
it, but and not the second. In the firstLaymen it is consider'd
as a sort of contract and that of a private one made by them in
their , or rather for them by their parents
upon which nothing is founded, and which is never drawn into consequence against them
or Tutors, which at their maturity they are at
liberty to forget or cancel. The reason is, because
when it is once entered into taken, or when more
than once, still at a very very early period of life
before a man's chara has come abroad into the world, e'er his
character is well formed, there if he pleases, is an end of it.
In the Clergy man
because + as often as he shall meet with the opportunity
of possesseing acquir himself of any of these emoluments
which are the end of his entering into this + at any time, &
profession, he knew from the first, & must state
continue to understand, that the same engagement
will come to be renew'd. To be consistent therefore
and sincere, if it be preferable, he must keep himself
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What The course therefore that a man intelligent and
zealous for the public good that to take, in order
to avert the mischief of the institution from
Society, is in the 1st place to endeavour
it's abolition - If that be impracticable then
in the as a last resort next place+ to distinguish separate distinguishab as much
as possible the engagement from those in the + as the last resource
observance of which the community is interested:
to do his utmost to distinctions clear
avowed intelligible, conspicuous & avow'd - To cause
it to be understood, & that by all ranks and conditions
of man, that whereas he who being called
upon in a court of Justice to say declare the
truth, hath said I saw this man do so, whereas
he saw no such thing is a villain,, obnoxious to
God's Justice, to the punishment of the Law, & to
the wrath and contempt of man +; he hath who + so of the Paths of Allegiance & Supremacy & Juryman's Verdict
++hath said, these this & this articles of speculative religion ++ forced by the obdurate Bigotry or selfishness of...
I believe, whereas he believeth the direct contrary
is may yet be and honest man - the only terms ground on
which the moral character of it is impossible to
say how great a part of those that take this engagement # # of any, consistent with their intellectual character
can be maintained.
SUBSCRIP. Two methods of averting- the Evil of.1.to abolish. 2 to ! [ ] Separate the notion of from that of other engagements.
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stedfast throughout in the same + opinions || so long as
untill all desire of possessing these things which are + system of set set of - course
the objects of all man's desires are++ extinguished in
him. || without any interval of
The Layman may say it any time, I was ++ shall be
mistaken - I have thought better of it - I have examined -
Then articles which I once believed, or
rather was contented to do any endeavour not to
did believe, [I now find that] I can persuade myself to believe no longer,
All this he may say, and in private among
his friends (for in public he has no occasion to is free to say
say it, being in these sentiments any more than he
would have to say otherwise, being in the opposite)
and, except a fewnew & thin persons & or a glanceside looks from
his ecclesiastical acquaintance, may go on in
the same career & with the same success as if
he had not said it no such thing.
With the Ecclesiastic it is otherwise. the engagement is of the essence of the profession every time he steps into the desk, every time he ascends the pulpit
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And this, God be thanked, is what + he can do, by in this country & any private man may yet do
the mere force of his own reason applying itself
to that of other man, without the assistance
and in the the teeth of the narrow policy of the ruling
powers.
When an assertion averment <add>declaration</add> is come to be understood as It is for the people arise & cast out these seeds off corruption which those who govern them are industrious to sow.
syngnifying differently in this from what they
do in other case.
And is this skin a harsh alternative, to opt chose
between utility and Truth? Who said it, that [to
the extent of their powers as much have thus divorced take part between
the powers being of celestial origin, declined in spite
all their efforts to a private and everlasting
alliance?
It is for the sovereign power to sow or to extirpate
the seeds of corruption among the
people.
Tis and idea + worthy the heart &
the undertandinging + a policy
of a Scholastic Pedant, to corrupt themen's morals in order to purify
their Religion.
Difference of effect on Laymen and Churchmen.
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