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6 Church Preface
of England, or as some may perhaps choose rather
to term it, the subversion of the Church of England
are the work of a Church of member England
man of a member of that church. A man
born and bred in that church whose education
was planned executed and superintended
in all its stages from infancy to manhood by persons zealously attached members of that Church
to it, and who had almost arrived at manhood before
he ever held converse with any persons of
who were not zealously attached to it. The prejudice
of education has consequently with him
been all acting on that side: and as he has
never had neither now has nor ever had the
smallest particle of what is called interest
to bias him on the opposite side, he has as
little cause to suspect the opinions notions and arguments
here delivered of being warped by any undue
bias, as of being any thing else but the genuine
conclusions of the reasoning faculty according
to that measure and cast of it which has
been imparted to him, as it is possible for
any man to have
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7 Preface Church
At an It I take this same opportunity to
make a confession which whatever may be
its effect with relation to the character of one
whose character is of no sort of moment to
the public may perhaps be not altogether of
disservice to the cause. At a very early two periods <add></add> early
period of life consid but the last of them very
early and considerably prior by two years to that to the age of
manhood when those interests which are deemed
most essential to man are committed to his
hands, a mixture of thoughtlessness and timidity
induced me to swallow gulp down that bitter pill
of its ecclesiastical absurdity, which by the
malignity of ecclesiastical tyranny of past ages and the profligate
indifference of the present the flower of the
English youth stand condemned to swallow.
The sin whatever it may amount contracted
at the first of those inauspicious periods, and
confirmed at the second made gave birth at the moment
to impressions which age time <add>years</add> and reflection have
deepened not rather than <add>rendered but the more </add> assured. What is once passed, omnipotence
itself can not reveal: but of sin in
general, and this sort of sin a sin of this sort in in particular, is
susceptible
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