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Church Intolerance
Intolerance Church
Profligacy &
Folly are the
universal attributes
of the
body of the
people. What little Wisdom
and probity
there is in the
world is all engrossed
by them
and the few
who heartily
espouse their
cause
Such are the
suppositions postulates
on which form
the basis of
their reasoning. Doing Grant
them this, or they
have not a syllable
to say
for themselves
What is curious
is to hear such
men as these
call themselves
Christians, & Xtianity
a religion
of peace & benevolence
— Of these
propositions one
at least cannot
but be untrue:
let them choose
which that is I
leave it to them
to pronounce.
One thing I know
that if this be
Xtianity I abominate
and abjure
it the name.
My profession
and my practice
is to wish pray for
religious liberty
even for those
who would deny
it to myself. If
this be to be a
Xtian I am content
to bear the
name: if not
I protest against
it as libellous,
and by that
Mahometan or
Atheist or any
thing may be substituted
in its stead.
Tolerant or intolerant,
benevolent
or malevolent
— these are
the essential distinctions
among
men.
If those who
smite when they are
not smitten are
the true disciples
of him whose command
it was, when
men smite you
smite them not again
let me never be I am not of those
found in such company.
.. Charges against
the Ch. of England
— that it perpetuates
hatred and all those
vices that are stated
by way of eminence
antichristian —
The word that can
be said of hatred
be is that it disposes tends
men to endeavour
to do what as those
men (the Bps) have
done and mean
declare themselves
ready to do for ever.
I am not much
given to prayer,
not having much
confidence in my opinion of my talent
for power to inform
the wisdom or
change influence the desires
of providence omniscience:
but when I wish,
it is
But to abate any
of the strength of
the argument would
be to betray the cause
& to betray the cause
would be out of
false tenderness to
one the guilty party to do
injury to their more the more
deserving brethren
Had I a son,
I would rather a
thousand times over
put him to board live
at chastely at a brothel, than
to hear a religion &
morality at a
school for Perjury,
where Perjury is
taught & commended
without
& without shame.
The great shame
of my life is that
I supposed/suffered myself
to be a p
in such wickedness
my comfort is that
at least I never
attempted to impose
it upon others
the utmost I
would is , the
only one in my
power to make
is to keep others
from defiling themselves
with it,
as I alas! have
done
I been is past
it for or putting
down that altar
of abomination, at
which good s truth &
& every thing that ought
to be of
among so
long have made a sacrifice
Let all who value
separate themselves from
such muck in society
you will
They have not only
a secret intimation
suspicion that Atheists
are better men
than themselves: not
only this, but they
have the weakness to
betray it.
I do not call say
they are Atheists,
far be it ever from
me to give cats any
such vulgar and
always ill-grounded
scandal. This only I
say that if Atheism
consists in a spirit
of forbearance and
a rigid regard to for
the sanctity of an
oath, it would be
better for them that
they were.
There is a degree
of profligacy in
this plea which
makes me blush
for human nature
One knows not which
to admire most
the tyrannical hatred
displayd against
individuals, or the
unfeeling selfishness
which scruples
not to sacrifice
undermine the whole
fabric of the laws
rather than forego
the advantage
of employing it as
an instrument of
vengeance.
The condition of
those him whom a tyrant
Dionysius D had seated
under a sword
suspended by a hair
is a proverbial
species of torture
become proverbial:
the whole body of the
laws is to be debilitated
by a slow
but deadly poison
rather than that
their malevolence
should be robbed
of its prey rather
than that should lose
the feast invented
by that tyrant.
A disposition man that
to burn another
mans house for
the sake of roasting
himself an egg
is the character of
extreme selfishness
as depicted by D
Bacon.. These
men would set
fire to a house
not to roast their
own eggs, but eggs
of their own, but to
scorch those of other
people.
Treachery is the
natural companion
of pride and cowardice
He who objects
urges a want of
respectfulness in the
state of the application
as a justification
for not granting it
does as much as
to say, what we
want I will give
you if ye will
fall down and worship
me. Believe
no such insinuations:
when he has
trussed up the your
he will throw your
supplication into the
fire.. The way to
be heard from them
is to give them not
the language they
would
would steal from you
but the language
they deserve.
To ballance the
effects of fear on
this side the most
effectual method
is to raise up a
little of the same
passion on the other,
to ballance quiet their
fear of not seeing
men grow unruly
if their rights are justice should be
given done them let him
learn to fear they
may prove unruly
if justice is not
done.
The dignitaries of a
corrupt & pampered
Church it has been well
observed by Jo Priestly
are the most cowardly of men
The vices of the
head as well as
the imperfections of the body infect
the heart. Eunuchs
and Slaves are naturally
cowards.
The observation is as
old as Hesiod. The
day that robbs a
man of his liberty
robs him of half
his virtue. Subscriptions
& University
not only rob
of a man of his liberty
but of his
vivacity into the ty to boot
bargain.
I am proud
as I ought to be
of the honour you
intend on. I
will importance
eagerness
you
to subjected
for the
of calling
my
in the
of writing myself
your correspondent
Have they the blindness
not to see this,
or the malicious insensibility
not to regard
it?
The odium that
attends the character
of an informer is the
only security that
the victims of ecclesiastical
laws against
the perdition that awaits
them: that
character upon which
the body depends ab
indispensably for its
support. One of the
most pernicious of
popular prejudices
is that which keeps
this odium on the
head of the informer —
this deplorable evil
such render
a necessary one
Is the Ind Informer paid
for his labour? so is the judge.
Are they be? — so is
he.
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