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having put themselves so long been in in possession of treating the connection of their mysteries, fictition of all
things the most vain & trusting: with morality, of all things the most important
Whether a more right or act to hold himself his form under a Cow's Tail to receive
the as he is dying is a question very pifling & ridiculous
Whether the divinity be single or triple is a question very awful & sublime
But their connection with morality, & virtue with the peace & happiness of mankind
with every thing that can be the object of political disquisitions & regulations, is
precisely equal & the same: Best way to sign at 6 instead of 16 from the moment it is allowed that the disposition
of the deity be the simplicity of composition what it will is the same, towards
Vice & Virtue. Nobody wants to prevent their writing them over & getting them by heart if they please: they may repeat them over 20 times in the hour as the Mahometans do their or the Roman Catholics their Pater Noster.
When instead of proving that their tenets are more conducive to peace & utility that their opposites their rival dogmas therefore men betake themselves to declamations on the [beauty of]
necessity of Religion in general, & desire them to take notice, that they have
abandon'd the cause for which they are contending, that they are serving their antagonists exactly in the same with themselves & are doing nothing but
adding for evermore equal weights to each scale, leaving the Ballance when
they have done their all just as [it was] when] they found it:
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[[watermarks::j honig & zoonen [lion with vryheyt motif]]] |
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