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Eccles. Eccles.
Prop 1
No such power as
any that is called
Ecclesiastical ought
to exist
Reasons
Such power would
be either over the
1. The Members of
the Church: or
2. The servants
of the Church
1. No man ought
to have power over
the Members as
such
2. No man but
the Members in
Assembly ought to
have power over
the servants of the
Church.
Prop. 2.
No man ought to
have power to
cau oblige any
other to profess
belief with respect
to any propositions
of a relig relative
to religious or any other subjects.
or any other to not even
even in future. be established in
future
Reasons.
1. Hardship of unnecessary
coercion
2. Danger of discontent
from resentment
against
coercion.
3. Danger of inculcating
habits
of falshood.
Prop. 3.
Still less ought
any man to have
any such power
with regard to propositions
devised delivered <add>laid down</add>
in past ages.
Reasons.
1. It is an absurdity
that an
immaturer should
bind a maturer
age in regard to
any subjects, be
they ever so easy
2. - much more
in regard to subjects
more confessedly
so difficult
the most
difficult of any.
3. The more difficult
the subject,
the more
improper such
coercion: the less
difficult, the less
necessary.
Prop. 4.
It may be of use
that in every Parish
there should
be an officer charged
with the appointed
for the performance
of certain services
of a public nature
among which may
be the furnishing the
people with moral
instruction, accompanied
with such
ceremonies functions of a
religious nature
as are deemed may appear subserviant
to the purpose
of inforcing
the discharge of moral duties.
Prop. 5
For To the office in
question it may
accordingly be requisite
to annex a
certain pecuniary
allowance
Prop. 6.
The proper quantum of
this allowance depends
upon the same
rules and considerations
as those which
determine the proper
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