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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:
But there is an answer ready to all this, & as much more as any one should have
to say to the same effect; & in consists in accumulating the epithets of Arian Socialism
Deist Atheist Miscreant False Brother + + Intestine Foe bad subject many of the Church & what is the same of
human kind — In all kinds of personal imputations recorded & imagined in profession.
in maintaining that Heaven & Earth will come together, unles if men
are no longer permitted to tyrannize over the consciences of their neighbours, &
if men when they put on black coats are permitted to retain their judgment &
their senses: in insisting that those [two] faculties under the possessions totally disqualified unfit
for Tutors to Princes to Legislators & to the People: in insisting upon it as a thing
indisputable, that Men will rise in arms the moment it is announced to them
that they may choose whether they will
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