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Obligation
I will shew the root of this [all] evil. Though it be cost
me at the expense of a digression.
This man was a casuist by Profession† †+ per Biographer Britannica in his life.; one
might almost say by Trade. He pushed himself by it into eminence.⊞
⊞ He put his hook into
men's consciences and
led them.
I dont know can't say
whether he had money paid him on the nail was paid for his quiddities
by the piece: but he dealt in casuistry, as
much as Cicero who took no fees but left 18 eighteen
country houses of his own purchasing behind him, did in Oratory.
It would move pity to see what Gnats he
strained at: while this huge camel was so glibly as he has disgorged thus upon
quickly gulped down composedly us this prodigious Camel.
Beaver and his Stones.
They put a young man's conscience to
the worn rack, till (for more present relief and to save himself at any rate out
of inability to bear the] torture) he plucked it
out and cast it into their bosom. from that Then it is their
moment he is [made] their slave.
work is done: they put their hook is in into his
nose, and enroll him in the catalogue among their slaves.
From that moment the independent exercise
of his judging frailties is treason.
Tis plain necessity [that forces him into these
fetters:] for [at this time 1 day] it is a thing
not probably that a man who has taken the least burthen of Religion should look these
Obligation
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