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13 Intitled Cause Church Form
Use of tracing
this species of
error to its
source
That the practice among Christian legislators
has in all ages better to been far from conformable to these
rules shewn much stronger marks of aversion opposition
than of conformity to those rules is but too
well known: and many Protestant Churches notions
few or none have a discovered a more marked
opposition to them than that of the English England.
Every practice has not its reason in the
sense in which reason is synonymous to justification: but every practice must have its reason
as far as the sense in which the word reason is put
simply for the cause. Where a practice is erroneous
no sort of illustration can be more useful is satisfactory than
than that serves to point out its cause: the source
of this error being there laid open its title to that
appellation will be the more commonly appear <add>the more indisputable</add> satisfactorily perceived.
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which consideration
powerfully in
the not distinguishing
of theology between
a proof of the
truth of a proposition
of a proof
of the obligation of
believing it.
The grand source of error in this line seems
to have been the not distinguishing between the truth
of an opinion relative on a question relative to connected with religion in
of theology, and the religious obligation to conform
to it. the latter point has been so hastily and blindly unindistinguishingly
inferred
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