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+04 Intolerance Cause Form Church

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Further Higher origin
of this notion
not distinguishing
the difference between
disbelieving
God's word
and man's account
of it
To advance one step farther in the chain of causes
and effects, what could have given origin to a notion
at once so general so ridiculous and so horrible? It must I
think be this. God having revealed made known
the proposition in question in the same revelation
by which he has made known all other things
pertaining to salvation, to refuse to believe it is
a contempt of his word an a denial imputation cast on his
veracity an act of rebellion to his will. If my
father, my master, or any other human and
fallible being were it to spare me the of whose wisdom judgment
and veracity I had reason to entertain an
assurance were to spare me of the truth of the
proposition in question, would not by disbelief of
it be a reflecti an impeachment of their
title to respect? how much more disrespectful when
the proposition comes warranted to me by a being
of infinite wisdom in whose composition the qualities
of wisdom and veracity are both equally interwoven in
the most absolute degree? This comparison
takes for granted the very fact in dispute: and the
analogy fails in a point without which it is nothing
to the purpose. When it is said my father or my
master

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master have told me so and so, the fact of his their having
told me so is supposed to be out of dispute, as it
in the intercourse between man and man it may
very naturally may be. But, as to God, whether
what is with so much confidence given for his
declaration is his is no is the very fact and the
only fact in dispute. The question dispute in all these
cases as every body who is not wilfully blind
must see is not between God and men, but between
one man and another: whether the interpretation
put upon a declaration by me, or that put by my neighbors which we both
admitt to come in a certain sense and in the
same sense to come from God to be the right one.]
to p. 13

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Disbelief of Gods
word we find is the
sin of nobody
not even of
From p. 16 Of the opposite opinions thus entertained by us contending polemics it may be that are one and
to points whose only title to importance is built by us upon the sublimity one and
one only is true, but both are equally pure from
every thing that savours of disrespect or irreverence
to the Deity. If hell were to wait for inhabitants
till it met with a man who believing a proposition
to be avered for true by the Almighty author of all truth thought
proper at the same time to believe it to be false,
we need not be in any great charity need not give itself much concern apprehension fear for about
the multitude of its inhabitants the damned.
To p. 11 Are

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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
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
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