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Promulgation
what the author is pleased to stile A rational
exposition of the Church-catechism. This rational
exposition contains nothing but
abusive comments of an obscure text, relating
solely to mysteries altogether unintelligible incomprehensible to
grown and even to learned persons: mysteries doctrines
for the understanding or pretended understanding
of learning for which no men are ever the better, and for
which many men have been abundantly the
worse.
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If young people must needs be instructed
in controversial divinity, it may at least be as
well to wait till they are arrived at a maturer
age.
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As to the matter of this part of the notion, nothing can be
farther from being mysterious in itself; especially
when the branch relative to Procedure is excepted:
the only thing that makes it mysterious is
the manner in which it has hitherto been treated.
9.
How should it be mysterious? what does it relate
to but such actions as a man every one is continually
either under temptation to do, or in a way to suffer
from
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