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1 Novr 1813
Church

1o
II. Doctrine
Ch. Bond
Facienda
Atheists unexcludable

3 8

Facienda —

25 or 14 or 1
Facility an enlightened
legislator would see and
employ for reconciling
the avoidance to generate
mendacity with the avoidance
to exclude improvement.
p.1.

26 or 15 or 2
1 Declarations of opinions
he would require none:
such negative ones excepted
as were necessary to
exclude from the establishment
the votaries of religious
tyranny and other
practical mischiefs. p.1

27 or 16 or 3
2 Positive none: not even
assertive of the truth of
Christianity or the being
of a God. p.1

Note
(a)
27 or 16 or 3 A
1. Atheists — why tests should
not be employed to exclude
them.
2. A test would not have
this effect, except in so far
as the conscience of an
Atheist were more scrupulous
than that of the
Church of England Clergy
Witness the University
perjury one half constantly
committing it, the
other regarding it with
indifference.
3. So far as the test
fails of producing this effect
it adds mendacity to Atheism.
4 In so far as it excluded
Atheists, it would prove
the inutility of religion.
p.2
5. It would not exclude Atheists
any further than in
an Atheists mind there
exists a principle which
prevents sins unsusceptible
of detection. p.3

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Atheists unexcludable

27(a) continued
6. If these, how much
more surely those exposed
to detection? of which
sort are all practically
mischievous ones p.3

28 or 17 or 4
3. An engagement he
would require: having
for the its object the securing
to every member
of each congregation
the continuance of
the accustomed service
in the accustomed
place, undisturbed
by pain of scandal
as above: thus securing
him against the alternative
of enduring this
pain or losing the benefit
of public worship. p.4

29 or 18 or 5
Of this engagement the
terms would accordingly
vary with the nature and
terms of the public service
— thence with place and
time. p.4

30 or 19 or 6
Advantages of of such an
arrangement.
1. Nobody subjected to
suffering
2 Every body secured against
it
3. Door would be left
open to improvement:
in preaching
4. preaching except in
one place at some few
certain times
5 every where in writing

31 or 20 or 7
6. This restraint subsisting
a Minister's discourse
and writing might be
ever so impious and absurd,
no parishioner would, without
his own concurrence be
affected by it. p.5

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32 or 21 or 8
7. Infringing it, no man
could have ground for complaint
conscience could
not have been the cause

33 or 22 or 9
4 Positive engagement,
either none, or of the
utmost latitude: viz
1. as to doctrine to teach
the religion of Jesus as
set forth in the scriptures
2. as to service to conform
to existing regulations
or resign
p.
3. As to discipline no engagement
necessary, it's
own force suffices.

34 or 23 or 10
As to doctrine, positive
engagement to preach
this or that doctrine,
neither would be useful
nor is customary. Within
the established pale
every minister is left
to choose his topics and
his doctrine in each.
p

Identifier: | JB/006/158/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6.
Date_1	1813-11-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	25 or 14 or 1 - 34 or 23 or 10
Box	006	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	158	Info in main headings field	church
Image	001	Titles	facienda / atheists unexcludable
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / e8
Penner	walter coulson	Watermarks	<…> co
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	2891
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