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he had no intention of applying? to
cause him, say rather to force him,
leaving only the time and the quantum
to his choices? For to the ceremony performed
the everlasting punishment as
assumed to follow as a thing of course.
When will legislator and
Judges cease to be suborners of perjury?
of perjury on an all-comprehensive scale?
The passion for these Universal
Oaths, and (which is the same thing,)
for perjuries, can there be no means of administering
to it's gratification without
this boundless expenditure of crime, immorality
and consequent misery? If without
the special and specific mischief
produced in so many shapes as above,
simple oaths, with correspondent perjuries
will content them, perjuries, of both
views sorts, assertory and promissory, they
may have their fill of. Each man may
perform them for himself, and he may
have strings of beads to tell them on,
each man may thus perform them
himself, or, in proportion to his opulence,
he may, for adequate remuneration,
cause them, in any desirable quantity,
to be performed by others — By means
of preestablished signs, he might even
for this same purpose press into the
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Answering to his call, this man
places himself in the witness's box. The
learned Counsel has his instructions. Sir,
(says he) do you believe in a God? What follows:
Answering falsely, the proposed Witness is admitted:
he can not be rejected: answering truly
he is silenced, and turned out with ignominy.
The martyr to virtue, the martyr to veracity
receives the treatment given to a convicted
felon.
The Atheist was unseen
and silent. These Lawyers drag him into broad
daylight, and force into the public mind the
poison from this confessing and thus corrupting
tongue.
What will not the advocate do — what will not the fee fed Judge support
him in doing — for their fees? Inquisition
this. High Commission Court all over. For
the purpose of thus punishing the offence,
they create it: themselves accessories before
the fact: themselves suborners.
Individuals they thus
invest with the power of pardon — thus do
these sworn guardians of the Kings prerogative
— Individuals? and what Individuals?
in the first place the same Atheists: in
the next place, all Christians and other Theists,
whom they have succeeded in rendering mendacious
enough to pretend to be Atheists.
A murderer (suppose) is on
21.
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