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PENAL LAW TRIN.Y

"My Father is greater than I" But this [] is a gift of a precious and peculiar nature; which happy are those that have but which a man may want, nor be less honest, nor less wise nor less brave, nor less zealous prayed God for for the in the happiness of his fellows creatures nor less able to promote it.
Should any man utter the very self-same proposition, with only a grammatical conversion
adapting it to the person of the speaker, (I mean peremptorily and not in the way of argument
as I do,) should he say, God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is greater
than he, he is becomes that moment unfit (so the Legislature hath adjudged) to serve or to defend his country with
his head or with his hand, but above all things to preach that Gospel in which
this proposition is contained
But if should this inexcusable temerity break out a second time Whenever a of this Sentence of this sort is produced, secures an Orthodox Divine knows sees without difficulty that it was said not simpliciter but secundum quid; that a certain unthought of mental reservation always accompanied it; that it was dropped as it were inadvertently by from the Divine spokesman or his historians, not sufficiently considering the duplicity of his nature.+ Ut sit et mors solatium & vita supplicium

I know there are many texts in the same scriptures, by virtue of which when rightly understood
and applied it appears that greater means greater, but equal: but in short some men's faculties
are duller about with relation to these points than those of others; who yet may not want altogether that Judgment which may enable them to conceive determine what is useful to their country; and that the eloquence which to make it appear to be so: nor the Courage to risk his life to arm it. & it is hard to be punished for not doing
what men scarce find not in their power to do, without that inspiration of the holy Spirit which
the prospect of a comfortable settlement on earth so conveniently seasonably draws down from heaven.

I am far from contending that men ought not to believe that greater means equal:
but God has no where expressly commanded us to believe it: and that I alledge as one amongst
other reasons, why Man should not command us to believe it not to say that we do not believe it under an outrageous penalty
or under any penalty, our saying so neither doing good nor harm mischief to Society: but our
thus having our mouths stopped from saying as being thus debarred by force from saying so neither doing grievous harm to it by loading it with the sense consciousness of
servitude to a 2 degrading and 1 capricious domination. mandate prohibition

I myself for one should find myself no ways disposed to say any thing about the
matter were it not for I not galled by this standing provocation which every one must feel who when without cause,
at feeling [without cause] causeless his reason insulted and his Liberty attacked.

I say God has no where expressly commanded any thing about the matter: tho' men chuse to make no
difference between expressly commanding a thing to be believed to be, and the permitting certain
sentences to be recorded from which some men with great sincerity doubtless form
conclusions that it was so, while others with equal sinceritty form conclusions opposite ones that it was no
such thing

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