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§. 1. Present abstract fitness
Part . Mischiefs produced by attendant on the practice of exacting
declaration of persuasion on matters of religion.
No declaration
of persuasion
but from hope
of gain or apprehension
of loss
By no man is any such declaration made for mere
amusement. The occasions on which, in the case of a Minister
of teacher of the religion of Jesus a declaration of this sort is made have
just been brought to view. On each such occasion be the person who he may there is
either something to be got by so doing, or something to be lost
by not doing it: by the a proposed Minister whatsoever
good is in is in any shape expected to be derived from
the possession of the office: by the him who is already
Minister in possession of it, whatsoever evil is apprehended
as productive by the loss of it. that same office. This applies
not only to subscriptions but to viva voce declarations, formal
and informal, in respect of the Ministers part in the shape of creeds and liturgies.
This
the
to the lay
of congregation
Even to the the case of a lay member of a congregation — to him
from no declaration of opinion is exacted in the way of subscription
is exacted, it is applies to the orally expressed declarations, formal
and informal as well as formal: - to creeds and to
the part borne by the congregation in the reading of their
part of in a fixt liturgy.
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