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2)
JURISP. CRIT.
These representations our Author has found it easier
to treat with disregard, than to prove them to deserve
it.
thus Our Author says they are suspended. To suspend
is to repeal for a time – The fact is these are either repealed
for ever or not at all.
Merely for declining to espouse opinions Men who refuse to call God to witness to their comprehending
what is incomprehensible,⊞ ⊞ To 3. are punished
with incapacities (and the loss with the destruction of the prospects of a
whole life) and beggary their frequent consequence.
While ag doctrines like this of our Authors the effect
of which if acceded to would be to subvert every
government upon earth are suffer'd to pass unbid
unpunished and uncensured, perhaps even approved uncensured and unheeded. God forbid they ever should
be punished! God forbid the force of the political
should ever be so unnecessarily and mischievously employ'd
as it would be if applied to the suppression
of such doctrines. But the less occasion there is for
the interference of the political sanction, the more
is there for bringing the authors of them so far under
the scourge of the oral sanction,⊞ ⊞ as such persons will be brought, by displaying by exporing by displaying
the mischievousness tendency of them these their doctrines in its genuine colours proper light.
In the Meantime the indifference if not the approbation
shewn to them by those who are so eager
to punish as far as they dare to punish, the maintainers
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