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8 Church
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6 Church
of an immaturer age by rewards or punishments
by offices and salaries salaries and deputies, by prohibitions and
disabilities would be looked on upon as an act
of folly bordering upon insanity. (a)
(a) For note see p. 7
There
must be something not a little extraordinary
in the nature of the divinity, if that a
species of cultivation culture which would be poisonous
to every other art or science should
be not only serviceable <add>assistant but</add> useful and every even necessary to that alone.
If there be any such difference between this
and other arts and sciences upon
those who think this to whom this mode of cultivation
a proper one may seem a proper one to point out wherein it lies.
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From This consideration
alone sufficiently
demonstrates the
of whatever
is commonly
meant by Church
Government.
If this be impossible, as to me it appears to
be, the inference is not less necessary than incontrovertible than
important; viz: that there ought to be no such
thing as what is called commonly meant by Ecclesiastical Church government
any where. The function office What of true science
in respect has to do to Ecclesiastical Polity is thus reduced
therefore much the same as what it
has to in respect of relation to what has been called School Divinity: to shew that
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