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Here is a mischief — a palpable & striking mischief or rather one accumulative of mischiefs many of them equally palpable & striking — now shew us the inconveniencies
of it's removal: and shew us (for otherwise you do nothing) that those inconveniences are greater than this
mischief

[What is here said depends not at all on the question whether] Without any indifference to Religion I may profit myself Here are be just three persons
in the divine Nature of but one or half a dozen; whether Grace be exalted
above free will, or freewill above Grace — Questions to which unimportant as they are, in practise as well as interminable in theory the bulk of the
people pay no regard & of wise sensible & virtuous men but little; & the less, if not
always as they are the more virtuous at least as they are the more wise

What matters it to me, whether my friend patron and benefactor has 3 thousand hairs upon
his head or but one? whichever be the case, or if neither, he is equally my patron & benefactor
still: Some may inspire me to a question in every alternative I shall be equally disposed to a throw cast a ridicule upon the subject; & but they are : however little ridiculous indeed the subject be in itself may be, the manner of treating it, indeed the pretence presumption of men of treating it at all must ever be superlatively so. I shall be just as apprehensive of his displeasure, and equally ambitious
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but not so impossible to determine; either with a competent share of patience, I may attain
a certainty about it if I please: which I have not at present: but in the Question to which I allude, who can flatter
himself with the hopes of ever knowing by any human means more than the nothing he
knows now.

If they would give them an education not such an one as they must unlearn, but such
an one as they may retain — When the Black Speck of Intolerance shall have been extirpated from their hearts, Clergy useful for Justices of Pc &c
— But to imagine the safety peace of the State attached to the Question!

How long will men refuse to perceive, that 'tis only from the collision of opposite
& unrestrained opinions sentiments that Light is stricken out? That it is not till after the exhaustion of the numberless errors that float on the surface that [the waters of] Truth are is at last drawn out of the Well — In History, Natural &
Civil, Philosophy natural & Moral, in Philology in Religion, in Mathematics even, for in
Mathematics there have been disputes doubts tho' soon quelled dispelled - -

How long will they persist in believing or appearing to believe, that in Human
Understanding, Nature there is an inveterate radical , a carnal appetite after for error, for
which nothing but their own infallibility is a can be the Cure?

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