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False fundamentals
whit
In all such points, error or ignorance is no loss, truth is no
gain, enquiry is frivolous and success deserving unprofitable

If among such tracts are any that have been
stiled fundamentals to build upon such fundamentals
is to build upon a cobweb.

Such are the doctrines paths of <add>rational argument</add> to which divines of almost scores
any every sort are suffer themselves to be are attracted into
by the hope of gaining necessity of fixing a wavering
disciple or combating a defending themselves against the common enemy. But
when the trumpet of civil war is sounded in him,
then shields are too often laid aside thrown away as needless,
and is hacked to pieces by the swords with which orthodoxy
furnishes both sides of the field.
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3. A third origin
insensibility
its distinction
between importance
& sublimity
A third Another distinction to which controversial divines have
been but too generally insensible is that betwixt the importance
of a tenet proposition and the sublimity of its the subject. of it
Important, in the only intelligible and rational sense
of the word is that which is so with reference to practice.
An important proposition in human physiology is
that which is so with reference to man's health and
faculties: one important proposition in theology is
that from which in the one event may is apt to result
conduct beneficial or in the other case pernicious to
the happiness of mankind. A sublime proposition
is that which produces in our imagination the
sentiment of the sublime or in other words of awe
and wonder: which a thousand objects ideas may do that
are of no more importance than the lowest and most
trivial. A question concerning the constitution of the
Godhead is as sublime as it is possible for one
to be. but according to under every branch of the Chrg
Christian system with reference to us none can be less divested of importance. (a)
Under the Pagan system Note? it was otherwise.
Mars and Jupiter had different measures of power and
frequently opposite inclinations. It was. The distinction
between

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	9-10, 7
Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	069	Info in main headings field	church
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f11 / f12 / f13 / f14
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	benjamin constant
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