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- And whyfor what is it that must a whole people be perpetually exposed
to the perpetual danger of making shipwreck
either of their good sense or of their consciences
merely that a few men may enjoyhave the pleasure
of triumphing over reason, & to saveof escaping
them from the intolerable inference that may be made that intolerable inferenceso intolerable to to their scolasticpride of their having once in their lives done what they had better not have done
of their having done amiss,been one instance in their lives when they might have done better from others being
suffered to do otherwise.permitted not to do the like.
Introduce here the argument I think in a
tract of Dr Randolph's, that if the University alter'dr
the mode they would thereby tacitly confess
their having been in an error.
thirty odd alterations he suffer'd to be made in his Bill.Compare this with Ld North's conduct in the East
India affairs
By what strange fatalitySocial necessityis it could it have happened, that that intelligent & patient minister should have thought himself obliged to the alliance and lent himself to the views purposes of men, of whose conduct it is the reproach to be thus opposite to his own. .... There are the Tools which we they have to work
with, who wouldwhen we would take in hand the great
work of LegislationReformation. too happy if theythe public would[when]
they cConduct themselves with the character of
passivenegative incumbrances, the public<add></add>welfare without ambitionatingaspiring to prosperity
the honourmerit of an active opposition.
Doomed for their... Whose whole life must be continued from
of devoted blindness, or of creepingleering dissimulation Give me those that can look truth full in the face
Tis not the having holding of a certain opinions that debases
the character, but the being obliged to have hold them.
The Athanasian creed
That compound of every thing that [+] can[+] is either odious or contemptible in language
Madman's dream
with whose understanding &or the Hareb Harebrained enthusiast
heart of him who it or dishonour
the justice of Destiny on whom it is father'd
doctrines without sense, and curses without
mercy.
The most prudent course they can take as
children of this generation is to stand up
boldly and without flinching for the sincerity of
their faith since nobody because nobody will by this means
be able to disprove their veracity though
nobody should believe it.
unseconded by the power suffrages ofAt this price, Riches Titles, & such sort of honours as
power without the can bestow
can bestow is their own: the ladder of preferment
invites their steps.
Reverence for Oaths amonfg the common peoplein Scotland - where there
are no subscriptions in the universities.
Where the Oaths are permeated with great
solemnity according to Mr Wilson+ + v. a letter signed Veritas giving an account of the finished procedure in Scotland in the Journal of same day betwixt the 3r July & the 5th August 1773
The people there struck with the form of
an oath -
Therefore custom-house [Exchequer] oaths
not regarded [Qu] (ascending to the same)
because administer'd in the English manner.
A Highlander thinks nothing of an oath
if not pronouncedtaken in his own country
form.
Yet deism more common there among
the gentry, than here.
Fictions abound not in that Law as in ours
Particularly thoseFictions upon Oath which subsist in the findings
of Grand & Petty Juries
The world is too full of any rate, of dissimuation
& prevarication & insincerity to need ittheir being [instilled into the fountainssprings of education, and] inculcated by
Law
Are all the consequencesright or wrong that any man or any at
of men have chosen are in d to draw from thenormal proposition
that are in scripture of<add>equal</add>importance to be counted into
Articles of faith?
If not how often must it be in vain repeated From Give man to be permitted to make Articles of faith of the ...
that there iscan be no other criterion of the importance of the light that was upon upon ....
of an article, than its [influencing or not influencing] upon....
influence upon some point of human conduct.
If Jesus had happened to have dropped and upon the view of St Bartholomew's great ? upon the colournumber of the hogs that were driven [by the devils] into the Lake
that the 3 angles of - Triangle are equal
to 2 right ones or that 2 sides together
are greater than the 3with the same reason we might have
had half Euclid & as many conclusion
conclusions besides as can be drawn
from it.
An Atheist of relaxed morality may be a Ro
Catholic, a Church-of-England man, a Presbyterian -
any thing.
The most unsupportable the most self-distinction
of all pretences is that which supposes
An Atheist to be stopped by Oaths which by the very
supposition he has no regard to.
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