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25 Nov 1813 1
Church
II
Ch.
1
After Ch. Mischiefs of Declar. of Opinion
is matter of record but
punishment it
It is tyranny employed to produce mendacity
A comment in the L Prayer — Lead us not into temptation
Recantation
1. In the case of
subscriptionalist
presented for
2. In the case of
persons at large do.
On supposition it
obstinacy on the point infallibility on the point of
The principle of power over truth
The reasoning on the topic is applicable to the production of
is not an object endeavour or utmost indifference will ever abate on the ground of punishment
Both to the authors and
the victims of this tyranny a
mind unpolluted with forced or
is an object of
envy and abhorrance
On the deprivation of the
mind depends the
of despotism: and a despotism
of a few
recently established
all existing Governments long
had this
Of Recantation considered as an established ground for
pardon.
Of the mischiefs produced by declarations of
opinion imposed and received as conditions to the receipt
of portions of the matter of good in the character of matter of reward
for ecclesiastical service the view given, as above, would
not be compleat, if a view were not likewise given
of the application made of that this same matter in this
same character in the case of the sort of exemption
(exemption from punishment) to the obtainment of which [+] the sort
[+] according to a practise
to a system of policy made of pre-established
form of
old laws in ecclesiastical
government.
of declaration of persuasion called a recantation is has been
in the character of a condition precedent made necessary
Compared with the field occupied by the case of subscriptions
the field occupied by the case of Recantation is happily
extremely very but narrow, and by the progress made by
wisdom and philanthropy in the field of religion, it is
surely though too slowly yet surely rendered narrower and
narrower every day.
Opinion pronounced or at least repeated — punishment
denounced is at least apporated in the case of the utterance of such opinion; transgression
by utterance of such prescribed opinion; prosecution, calling
for the infliction of the punishment so appointed; in pursuance consequence
of such prosecution, conviction: — all these incidents must have
taken place, before the state of things affording room for recantation has can in any individual instance
have been realized. exemplified.
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