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SUBSCRIPTION DIVINES.
They might would become as conspicuous for their
candor openness philanthropy and Liberality of Sentiment
The hasty vulgar struck by - for instances of the weakness of the few, whether they never consider, become conspicuous only in virtue of the contrast they form with the good conduct of the many. as they are already for their Temperance Sobriety
and Chastity. takes pains to contest in apt to their title even to this event
It is must be evident, that what is said on this behalf, can not be from it's own nature conceptible
</del> any man than of the reception of it must have so every ones particular experience & observation accordingly by instances of persons defective in those points, especially the two latter which are the least equivocal, among the established are comparatively uncommon; amongst the others, scarcely exist It must be confessed however that the Sectarian Clergy
possess and as such must behave necessarily these qualities in a still more eminent degree
than the Orthodox. The reason is one of the plainest that
can be imagined, becaus that they are cast entirely upon the
esteem of their congregation for the share of dignity on
which they possess: This report of the efficacy of human natures in regard to effects supposedly imput'd to religious. and man's the atheism of the people for the Sacerdotal character is well known to be governed by
the degree proportion in which those qualities are observed seen to be possessed.
All this has nothing to do with the points of controversy: if they were
to change places with the other, the difference, if any would be
in their favor.
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