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Man's faith must have been firm, that is,
must have had all the firmness which it is
in it's nature to have, because for there was
nothing to oppose it.
The Sanction must then have had it's
greatest force: for there was nothing to oppose
the belief of it's existence. Yet even then
we see it contemned over and over by the
the heads of the nation, and in particular by none more than
by the those devoted to it by profession.
On the Restoration, more regard was shown
why? because the moral Sanction had
got greater hold.
At the Reformation, nobody preached there was scarce any such as preaching The
Clergy, armed with secular authority, unopposed
in their claims established by using to the desperation disposal of
of them would be an apostacy to God, and a
renouncement of their religion. that
Under these circumstances should they have abjured these
opinions, What must have been the consequence? They
must have sunk at once into the profoundest
contempt & detestation. They must have
forfeited all pretensions to sincerity, veracity
and integrity: to those qualities whereby
men conciliate the esteem and good will of men, and
the it produces. Nothing it would
appear plain, they should ever after say,
would be to be depended on.
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