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From the notion
thus shown to be
erroneous, of the
necessary counseling
betwixt religious
error and guilt
results that of
the duty in prosperity of
separation.
We have seen how the notion which regards it
turn of thought reasoning which renders includes <add>envelops</add> the persuasion of
an a religious obligation on the part of mankind to believe
give credit to a proposition as a necessary consequence
of the persuasion of its truth involves at the same
time the persuasion that all persons who fail
of be giving credit are contemners of God's word
and destined victims of his displeasure. Hence
the notion of the fitness lawfulness & at least not the obligation
of making separating from such reprobates
and making the line of distinction betwixt us and them
as clear and as broad as possible. For this
purpose reason the several points that have been marked
by their reprobacy can not be collected too diligently
collected nor too frequently brought to mind
And what plan or occasion so proper as that in
which the votaries of the Deity are assembled together
to do homage to him and fulfill his will?

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From the notion
of the demerit
of disbelief &
heterodoxy resulted
that of the merit
of belief and
orthodoxy
For the same reason So much Demerit lying on the
side of disbelief, merit of a certain sort and degree
at least, as a sort of negative merit lies on the opposite
side. This merit will appear the greater
the more rare it is, in other words the greater the number proportion of those
who fail of attaining it.

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38 Intoler. Cause Church Form

proposition in diversity any more than a proposition
in any other science can be wholly true and wholly false at the
same time. If it is the <add>in the one case</add> one it is not in the other: as
therefore no of re my neighbour is I am bound to believe the proposition
false in the same way by the same lie that I am bound to
believe it true, one of us is bound under pain of
dev eternal misery by a being who is all truth veracity and
justice to believe what is not true.

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— and those who
start these questions
though they were
to discover its truth
would be the worst enemies
to the human race
Another matter that might be worth the consideration
of these polemical rigid divines is whether the
obligation of believing a proposition is or is not made dependent
upon the contingency of its the proposition's being presented
to my mind. In the first case it is an abuse
of terms to auth attribute to the being to whom
such an arrangement is ascribed the quality of
Justice, and lost labour to seek for salvation at
his hands. In the other case no language can
furnish terms strong enough to express the wickedness
of their occupations: the occupation they thus exercise in dealing pretended instruction
they deal real damnation, and the def
end wish which the spirit a being of infinite malevolence is said
to be constantly employ'd upon, striving at they atchieve.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	4-6, 11-12
Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	067	Info in main headings field	church
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
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