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DIVINES interested contra.
Ever since Toleration has been in vogue , that of harbour most eminent & politic among them in order
to bespeak the favor of the people, have now into flourishes upon in favor of Toleration: when
this comes to be explained and applied by it's application to particulars, it always comes out to be just as
much of Toleration as [is established] without their wills & against their wills and]
they cannot help.
That Divines should be incapable themselves of rising to attaining
any Great Ideas, is no great
matter: but this mischief is, even to the branding of Intolerance with the strong Epithet of accursed. they will not let others (whom they can prevent) take
their chance for doing so. would do all they could do insider any book from being read that should either controvert the conceits which they should engage to hold to concerning any of the speculative points or inculcate speak of its importance or only so permits the habit of thinking freely, as to have a tendency towards light rations concerning it.
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