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SUBSCRIPT. Zeal not owing to importance founded on conception of a tenet's Utility.

And if it were possible to conceive a subject at
once more sublime in it's own nature, & more frivolous
as a subject of dispute, is the most odious Theory it that subject would be that
which would gain a preference over this in kindling
their fiercest animosities Vol. 1st of Dr Machim's Translation 8 p. 184. 185. N. Machim or at least his elegant translator in the best & most copied History of the Church by History Churchmen, that has hitherto appeared, can speak in the same strain & with the same epithet horrid of indignation against 2 tenets of the founder of a set of Christians men called Heretics in one of which they had the fell into the error misfortune of giving too vulgar an original + The Carpenter's + It consisted in maintaining that the man Jesus was born of his Parents in the same manner as other men. yet he is spoken of in the same place as "acknowledging Christ for the Saviour of Mankind. to the Holy Father of our Religion, the other in to
maintaining if they were not belied, as they probably were, the equal meritoriousness
of all vice & virtue,
It is as sufficient as
any single example
can be, and of the
like sort these are
[innumerable]

nearly as many as there are consecrated disputants in Theology. To convince any unprejudiced person how entirely
all considerations of the Interests of Human Society
is out of the question in these disputes, & that such
considerations when brought on at all are brought in introduced
openly as arguments ad hominum to play upon
the bystanders and never entirely in as to
the hearts of those who use them, it is sufficient so
to observe, that + + And discount about Armenianism & Calvinism they have even passed from the one to the other in great tranquilility of their own accord.

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Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	279	Info in main headings field	subscript.
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