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Church Preface
-ceptible in any sense of receiving what is meant
by an atonement, it appears should seem that confession
it should seem and an honest endeavour to
save others from the misfortune of offending
in like being drawn forced into similar delinquency
bode rather fairer for the purpose than
blind indifference wilful blindness or hypocritical justification.
T It is the delight we are told and study of some
spirits to save men from sin: the gulph it is the
consolation of others to drag them in. I however
always noted the difference, and I have never
hesitated about the choice.
Nobody can suppose that many years will
pass by
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3 Church
If the reasoning should appear just, perhaps
even the addition which the reader may see subjoined in
the title page to the Author's name, may not be
altogether be without its use. In estimating
what is said the consideration who it is that
has said it to what description of persons belongs
he who said it is in the eye of impartial
reason a mighty very weak and irrelevant consideration.
But if ever the day should come
when such considerations will be treated by the
bulk of men with the contempt they merit deserve, too
sure it is it is not yet come. The notions
here developped in this were they to come from
any description of Dissenters from the Church
of England would present themselves to the eyes of
all who did not belong to that description
loaded with all that prejudice which
hangs heavy on the cause of a party man
pleading for the cause the interests of his party. It
comes from no such quarter. The views and
arguments and plans here proposed in the
view of promoting a reform in the Church
of
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