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18 Feby 1813

Church II Topics
Ch. 6. Qualy. Declarations

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§.1. Abstract fitness
Part. |^^^|.

In practice the application of the remedy need would not be
attended with any such difficulties as might at first on a first glance be
apprehended, and by such a zeal without knowledge might
be apt too apt liable to be {purportedly} created.

The practical application
has none
of the difficulties
which might be
apprehensible,—&
which might follow
zeal without knowledge.

Yes: if, to the establishment of peace and virtue innocence recantation, or on the part of any individual any person,
in or out of authority, any thing like having in any
respect the effect of a recantation were necessary required requisite.
But no such thing would b every such thing would be
productive of real mischief: no such thing would be productive
of any real use benefit. The object in view
what is it? the triumph of any one party? the humiliation
of any other? No: but the peace and content of
all.

Yes if recantation
were necessary.
But it is not—as
the object is—not
the triumph of
a party but the
content of all.

1. Let all
controversial
passages be weeded
out of from fixt forms.
Benefits — goodwill
& peace — Evils none.
None of the discardem
delenda are useful
to social worship
not being effectually
comprehensible.

1. Out of the fixt forms — of fixt forms for the comfort of those
who lie to whose ears they the melody of those are endeared by use, be all
those expressions be weeded out which have been the subject of
or bear allusion to controversy. Of the a system of purification
conducted upon this principle where in any one instance what would be the result?
would be the inconvenience ill effect? In every instance,
peace and goodwill in and towards men: in no one instance
inconvenience in any shape. Of all those things words
of which the omission of which would to this purpose be
necessary or conducive there is not one of which the utterance or
the hearing would in the place in the theatre of common and social
devotion be of any practical use: of which the omission could therefore
of any application
in practice
be attended with any practical ill effects. It is
only in proportion as it is comprehensible by human
reason that any word can be rendered really serviceable
to any human purpose: at least to any honest human purpose:
and
of the words and propositions
thus marked out indicated as proper
for omission to be discarded there is
not one that by human
reason is really and
effectually comprehensible.

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