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II Dissenters Intolerance — Modes — Tests Church
Tests — Modes — Intolerance Dissenters II

Intolerance Modes Tests — Mischief

In judging of
institutions we
should consider not
so much the effect they were
designed to have,
as the effect they
will have.

Tests if not designed
to convert
were designed to
separate. In as
far as they do
not convert nor separate,
they pervert
and corrupt

Places and Pensions
held by Members it is allowed
have a tendency to
corrupt: and the
only thing that is
said in defence of
them is that such
corruption is in fact a part
of the constitution
and therefore a necessary
part.

It will hardly
be said that such
corruption is a part
of religions: much
less a necessary
part.

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L North — I do
not complain of
his speech containing
nothing but
hackney'd arguments
— The most
consummate genius
can collect not
create arguments
it can only collect
such as the nature
of the subject affords.
The more a subject
has been discussed
the more likely it
is that the best
which it affords
should have become
hackneyd

My complaint is
that they are unnecessary
— That
they require explanation
and specification:
and
when explained
and specified, turn
out to be inconclusive
in consequence or false in fact

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Intolerance — Modes — Tests
Duty of Anti-Subscriptionalists

Not to
their benefices &
pretensions, that
is giving the owners
of liberty
what they want
it is doing the
work of iniquity
and tyranny
and yielding giving up
to rapacity it
covets

It is like fulfilling
a promise
extorted by a Robber

They ought to
stay on, but
do their utmost
to relieve their
fellow creatures
from the burthen
which their
own hard fate
occasioned them
to suit.

All a Robber
would deprive bereave you
of is a few pennies what money
you have about you. What
these people would
bereave you of is
your whole subsistance
and
the countenance of
your friends, the
quest of your life

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What is the use
or effect of coercive
measures? To save
the pred. of 4 imposers from
the pain of being
contradicted, their
tyranny from
being protested against
and their
falshood & profligacy from
being exposed

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Among the readers of
the present treatise I
hope that some at least
may be found according
to whose notions veracity
is a virtue worth
inculcating, or at
least falshood a
quality not fit to
be encouraged cultivated, especially
by such an expensive
mode of culture.

Men may take credit
for their a pretended
superiority of
mind in regarding
veracity or the contrary
habit as matters
unworthy the attention
of a man of the world
or a man of sense:
But the truth of the
matter is this pretended
superiority
has no other ground
than what of discernment
or word
of sensibility to the
happiness of mankind
or want of discernment
of the causes
it depends and under
the mask of superior
wisdom cover its real ignorance.

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