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31 Decr 1812 *11
Church 17 Feby 1813 J. B.
Edition

II Doctrine
Ch. 5. Coercive Direction — Ends

§.1. Abstract fitness
Pt Mischief — Subscriptions or
Creeds

1
Creeds more destructive
to intelligence and
probity than subscriptions.
p.1

2
Subscription the act
of the moment, it
leaves room if erroneous
for self correction
if arising from weakness
from for repentance
&c p.1

3
By invention of a
creed, error & weakness
is confirmed.
A worse devil invented
creeds than cannon.
p.1

4
The state of mind
of the minister than
do of the flock. A congregant
may be silent, secus the
pastor. p.1

5
In so conspicuous a
station, silence would
be equivalent to speech
like the spitter out of
the poisoned wafer. p.2

6
As with subscriptions,
so with creeds, truth
is no justification for
the imposing them.
p.2

7
If false, you compel
error or insincerity. p.2

8
If true, the less need of
compulsion, — if compulsion
could produce
belief, the belief, if any
thus produced, must
be adoptive, the belief
of others being taken as
conclusive evidence
of the truth of the proposition.

If the proposition
be unimportant,
compulsion of belief
is inexcusable — if
important, compulsion
the more mischievous
in proportion to its
importance. p.2

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§.1. Abstract fitness
Pt Mischief — Subscriptions or
Creeds?

9 1
Object of creeds, perpetuation
of the opinions
Hence if erroneous of
the errors p.3

10 2
Church of England
service befowled by
three creeds. p.4

11 3
Three different accounts
of religious opinions.
p.4

12 4
Are these all complete
and correct — then 2 of the
three are useless and
ought to be cast out at
any rate. Of these two
the effect can only be
to present a different
sense from the third,
and thus to instil error.
p.4

13 5
If one be inconsistent
with another, there must
be error, & that endeavoured
to be perpetuated.
p.4

14 6
Does every one include
what the others do not,
& thus though correct
they are not each
complete? p.5

15 7
If so, & they are not
intelligible, here use
is at an end; if intelligible,
cast out the
useless superfluous of
each, to avoid imposing
useless labour, and to
avoid imputed diversity
& consequent error. p.5.

16 8
What matters it by
what man such a creed
was drawn up? Have we
not his sources of inference?
& the same faculties, &
are they not more &
better exercised?

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Per contra — particulars in
which Subscription is worse
than Creeds.

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Date_1	1812-12-31	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-15
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