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Catechism

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Belief
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Devils, Saints, Angels,
Prophets, so
many objects which
spite of the commandment,
sword, purse
and fine arts have
been impressing the
graven images of, upon
the public mind,
how many engines of
terror wherewith the juvenile
mind is
bathed!

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What with the Devils, Saints, Angels and Prophets, and
the graven images which in conjunction with the power of the sword and the power of the purse all the power of the fine arts
Poetry, Painting, Sculpture and Music and above all Poetry have f
in spite of the abovementioned commandment, for so many ages been employed in engraving imprinting upon the imaginations
of mankind, how deplorable fearful the state of the
juvenile mind battered without ceasing by so many
engines of awe and terror! instruments engines of terror, engines instruments
of sinister influence, sacerdotal and despotic tyranny.

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A Prophet what. 1. a
discourse 1. on futurity
2. the State affairs.(a)
3. or who speaks out.(b)

6(a)
Twelve Prophets,
Wilkes — Burke &c

6(b)
"Prophesy who smote thee
so .

Taylors Liberty of
prophetizing.
Tempus Elizabeth
all sound religious
exercises prophesying.

1
A prophet, what is he what has he ever been?
In relation to this one point is Holy Scripture is the Old Testament
— is the New Testament[*] fit to be believed?
Consult once more a the concordance.

[*] are &c

A prophet is any every man who in his discourse
takes futurity into consideration+ — any man who in
public affairs speaks in the character of a statesman!!
any man who on the subject of any event speaks
out be that event past or future# of any event whatever
be it real or imaginary — present, past or future.

# "Prophesy who smote thee."

Read in this vein the works of the twelve Prophets: in most if not
in all of them you will find the public man the politician
in many of addressing himself in form to the Monarch,
but in substance to the people through whom it was their
object to influence the conduct of the Kings: in many of
them the Oppositionist, the John Wilkes, or Edmund Burke of the time.

Witness Bishop Taylor in his celebrated but not sufficiently
regarded work, intituled The Liberty of Prophesying:
by which, as he explains at large he understands and
endeavours to recommend neither more nor less than the liberty of
speaking ones mind freely and publickly on the subject of religion
When being Among those who are ever so little acquainted with Church
History
History, who is there that
does not know that in
the days of Elizabeth all
discourses held publickly
on the subject of religion
were called Prophesyings?

Among those who are
ever so little acquainted
with the Greek languages
at any rate with the language
of the Greek Testament
who is there that
does not know — that
[] profet whereas the
English word to prophesy
meant neither more nor
less that to speak out: to
speak out be the subject spoken of what it may: and in speaking either of the present or the past, be the subject what it
may, who is there to whom it happens not occasionally to speak of the expected future?

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Date_1	1814-06-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	7, 6, 6a, 6b
Box	007	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	105	Info in main headings field	catechism
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	pine smith & allnutt 1812
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	adam smith
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1812
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