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9 March 1813.
Church

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Ch. 15. Ceremonies

1
All ceremonies successful
instruments
of deception. p.1

2
Conceditur — if promotive
of religion &
thence of happiness
their deceptiveness
no objection. Happiness
the true end —
virtue, vice, deception
&c. only regardable
as means or obstacles.
p.1.

3
But ceremonies contribute
only to the detriment
of morality,
& through that
to happiness. p.1.

4
The truth of these
positions established
by experience. p.2

5
The degree of morality
& as far as depends on
morality, of happiness,
is inversely as the
attachment to ceremonies. p.2.

6.
Among dissenters, religion
as far as depends
on it — morality,
— as far as depends
on morality, happiness,
is at the highest.
By voluntarily taking
on them the
burthen of an establishment,
they give
proof of attachment
to religion, not given
by the members
of an establishment.
In non-establishments
there are no ceremonies.
p.2

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7
Among establishments
the Church of Scotland
has more good influence
than the Church
of England — the
Church of England
than that of Rome,
in the Church of
Rome there is more
religious instruction
than under the
Greek Church.
p.2

8
Among the negroes
the ratio of ceremony
to instruction
is at it's pitch, though
their apparatus is
scanty. (Elizabeth
and Laud might
never see their arts
exercised with more
effect, though with
so little means.)
p.3.

9
When the savage
was first improved
into a barbarian,
ceremonies with tales
of wonder &c. might
have been of use, tho'
Jesus did without
them. p.4

10
These days long
past — now by the
man of piety thus
they are abhorred,
by the man of taste
ridiculed. p.4.

11
By the puritans
Popish ceremonies
justly abhorred.
By Hume indifferent
to human
happiness or misery,
the ceremonies
were contemned,
by the Puritans
for their horror,
still more so p.4

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12
The Church of England
is to ready to
reprobate ceremonies
under the Romish Church,
but under their own
these things are revered.
The scarlet
which is at blemish
to the whore of
Babylon, is on her
purified sister, a
beauty. p.5.

13
Vain for bigotry to
attempt to point
out a difference between
ceremony
and ceremony. Their
tendency and effects
always the same.
p.5

14
Under every religion
from the negro to
the Church of England,
they are so many
expedients for creating
confidence or
terror. p.6.

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