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17 Feby 1813

Church II Topics
Ch. 6. Qualif.

2 8

§.1 Ab
Part Subscriptn & Creeds

In all this there seems not to be any thing that can
justly be called into dispute.

Yet after all allowance made of two evils, that
of the creeds seems still the worst. Antient as they are, have
we not the scriptures which are still more antient? Do
the information presented to us from these only original
, do these pretendedly derivative streams add any
thing which is at once intelligible, useful and true?
Instead of taking any thing from the burthen load of difficulty,
do not they each of them, much more all of them together
make an addition — a vast addition to it?

This seems not disputable,
but, yet the evil of creeds
is on the whole the
greatest. Do they
Though old, the
text is older. — Do
they add any original useful
intelligible & true matter to the original?
Or — do they not add
difficulty to difficulty?

Add to which nor let it ever be out of remembrance
the continual repetition from the infancy to the end of life
the continual repetition deglutition of this mass of unintelligible composed variegated mass of excrementitious matter,
the this continual repetition of the guilt of insincerity, is the self-blindedness
folly of blindness or self-deception self-deceit, — while the sin of subscription is [begun
and ended] in the same moment begun and ended.

Add to this the
continual repetition
of this
self deceit or
insincerity, while
subscription is
begun & ended in
a moment.

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