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6 March 1813
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Ch. 14. Ceremonies
§.1.
Part Pretended use

1
Pretended use of ceremonies —
Conduciveness to piety
and thence to morality
p.1

2
Conceditur, they create
and preserve a sort of
piety but a sort by
which morality is
dis-served to a greater
degree. p.1.

3
They keep alive the
expectation of future
punishment and reward
but as applied to the
purchase of this imaginary
service to God.
p.1.

4
It conduces to fear of
a God who they suppose
will judge them according
to their works
but to the time and
attention expended
by them on these operations.
p.2.

5
They stand in lieu
of good works, or atone
for evil ones, or do nothing:
whichsoever
they do, is evil. p 3

6
Once embarked on
the ocean of ceremonies,
the mind is driven
to and fro, without
end — exposed to
shipwreck on the
rock of insanity.
p.3

7
In the choice of these
operations, reason
has no part, and reason
being the only
thing to distinguish
good from bad, the
most extravagant
may be as much valued
as the best —
The appetite for them
a species of insanity.
p.3.

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8
From their irrationality
arises a tendency
to produce
ill-will. They keep
alive a morbid sensibility
in the mental
frame which
when it is shocked
by enmity or ridicule
produces a desire of
inflicting pain on
the supposed transgressors.
p.4

9
By the same delusion
which makes him
love his own ceremonies,
he hates those
of other sects. Though
his hate of them is
not so strong as his
love of his own.
p.4

10
Attachment to ceremonies
being incompatible
with reason,
hence he puts from
him this his only
immediate guide.
Of alledged revelation
he knows not, but
for reason, what are
true — what false —
A man guided, not
by revelation, but
by his notions of it —
Reason necessary to
all teaching, so of
course to the teaching
the revealed religion.
p.5.

11
If "inward light" serve
for a man's own guidance,
it is only by
reason he can manifest
it to others. p.5.

12
Inversely as ceremonies
(in practice are
found to be) morality
and religion. In the
Greek Church, ceremonies
are every
thing. Of the Bible
the lower orders know
no more from their
own knowledge than
of the Koran. From
report, not much more.
p.6.

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13
In Scotland, ceremonies
at their minimum
— so almost
with the Methodists.
Scoticé no house without
bibles — no Church
without expounder
of the Bibles.

Methodisticé religion
a still more constant
occupation. The
bible supplants
almost all other
books. p.6.

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