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having put themselves so long been in in possession of treating the connection of their mysteries, fictition of all
things the most vain & trusting: with morality, of all things the most important
Whether a man might or might not to hold himself his form under a Cow's Tail to receive
the Urine as he is dying is a question very trifling & ridiculous
Whether the divinity be single or triple is a question very awful & sublime
But their connection with morality, & virtue with the peace & happiness of mankind
with every thing that can be the object of political disquisitions & regulations, is
precisely equal & the same: Best way to sign at 6 instead of 16 from the moment it is allowed that the disposition
of the deity be the simplicity or composition what it will is the same, towards
Vice & Virtue. Nobody wants to prevent their writing them over & getting them by heart if they please: they may repeat them over 20 times in the hour as the Mahometans do their or the Roman Catholics their Pater Noster.
When instead of proving that their tenets are more conducive to peace & utility than their opposites their rival dogmas therefore men betake themselves to declamations on the [beauty of]
necessity of Religion in general, & desire them to take notice, that they have
abandon'd the cause for which they are contending, that they are serving their antagonists exactly in the same proportion with themselves & are doing nothing but
adding for evermore equal weights to each scale, leaving the Ballance when
they have done their all just as [it was] when] they found it: "Let us take care that in rooting out the Tares we do not destroy the Wheat."
But there is an answer ready to all this, & as much more as any one should have
to say to the same effect; & in consists in accumulating the epithets of Arian Socialism
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Deist Atheist Miscreant False Brother + + Intestine Foe bad subject many of the Church & what is the same of
human kind — They crying the comfort of their doctrines to their hearts' content & brood over them at their leisure. In all kinds of personal imputations recorded & imagined in profession.
in maintaining that Heaven & Earth will come together, unles if men
are no longer permitted to tyrannize over the consciences of their neighbours, &
if men when they put on black coats are permitted to retain their judgment &
their senses: It is a fundamental doctrine with those men that are peaceable in proportion as they are bigotted & blind; that good behaviour is incompatible with the exercise of reason. that in insisting that those [two] faculties render the professions totally disqualified unfit
for Tutors to Princes to Legislators & to the People: in insisting upon it as a thing
indisputable, that Men will rise in arms the moment it is announced to them
that they may choose whether they will believe themselves to men's eternal damnation: that one and all do as they will men's eternal torture."17 Caro — in umquoque in hunc mundum producto iram Deo atque damnationem mentur
that they will infallibly cut the throats of those who whosoever would have them free to chuse whether they
will declare, that the doctrine that nothing they can do will render them just in the sight of God
is the most comfortable of all doctrines — "Justi coram Deo reputamur ...... non propter merita nostra; quare sola fide nos justificari, doctrine est saluberrima, & consolationis volde plena. whether they will then believe, that it is
impossible to tell, without knowing what there is nobody and the kingdom would not the Archbishop of the Bench of Bishops nothing human can pretend to know
to tell whether a man's works supposing them good are sins or no 13 Opera ante gratious Christi & spiritus ejus afflatum, non substamus quin peccati introsum habeant.
That the Act for uniting the 2 Kingdoms, was an Act for eternizing the
abuses in both; & that it consists not with our good faith or honor to grow wiser: that the King has found
himself before God to resist withstand the wishes desires of his People — that to be incapacitated
from civil affairs is a punishment, for the emoluments of the civil department & to be incapacitated for those such of the ecclesiastical
which as are greater, is none at all; that to wish to come in for a share is to be greedy & worldly-minded;
but that to monopolize the whole is to be neither - that to be scrupulous about signity, is to want conscience:
but that to sign without scruple is to abound in it.
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