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OATHS.

Oaths may be introduced with
advantage, where men are compelled to the conduct, which
it is meant to put a stop to,
by moral considerations only:
for this being stronger than
most if not all such to the influence of which
men in virtue of such offices in
which Oaths are required are
exposed may be pretty well depended upon
for preserving the ascendant.

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There is it seems, a Liturgy composed by one
Dr Priestly, a man who though he has the misfortune
not to be orthodox is known as much to his
advantage in the republic of letters, and that of
Science, & of Christianity as if he were - it is
as I have heard the design of this performance, to
clear the expressions of men's devotion from the than
controversial entanglements which are as foreign
to the purpose of true piety as an adversary the contests about them to human
happiness & reason. I have heard it remarked
with a pious and liberal indignation, that
this Christian form of prayer is what mechanisms Jews
or Mahometans might join in — I know
not whether that be true I know not. for the book has not come into my hand But this I
know, that there is an old prayer, which
from the brevity as well as the excellence of
matter, whether from the prejudice of education
or the conviction of my own mind which says feels as if
it were sincere, or from what other cause I have been accustomed I have been accustomed from my infancy & continue in my manhood, to
prefer to any Christian composition I have yet seen
and should probably to this which I have not seen,

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Folio number	301	Info in main headings field	oaths subscription
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