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dently only one can be true , though both may be false . One of them was uttered before a learn - ed university in this island , by a Very learned professor of divinity : the place I shall leave to the conjectures of your readers , till your
ji Kirk of Scotland . With respect to that system of doctrines , which is adopted by the Kirk of Scotland , I must here again appeal to the proofs hereafter to be given , and again state the result . On the strength of this appeal , then * I can venture to assert , that , when the doctrines of the Kirk of Scotland , as taught in the
Confession of Faith , and Book of Discipline , are duly examined , they 'will be found in all respects conformable with the sacred writings . To dissent , therefore , in this country , from the doctrines of the Established Kirk , is to dissent "without a real cause . Indeed , there are many , who dissent without knowing the difference between our doctrines and their
own ; nay , without knowing whether the doctrines be different or the same . But this dissent is dangerous in every view . It is dangerous to the person * # ho adopts false notions in religion ; it is dangerous . to his neighbour ; it is dangerous to the state . The religious
dissentions in the Greek Empire , by diminishing its strength , prepared its downfall by the Turks ; and God grant , that the religious dissentions among ourselves , which unavoidably produce dissentions in the State , may not ultimately affect the downfall of -Britain .
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next ; when I shall take the liberty of sending you some farther remarks ; and , in the mean time , remain , with the best wishes for the success of your work , Your constant reader ,
THEOPHILUS . Church of England . With respect to that system of doc * trines , which is adopted by the Church of England , I must here again appeal to the proofs hereafter to be given , and again state the result . On the strength of this appeal , then , I can venture to assert , that , when the doctrines of the
Church of England , as taught in the Liturgy , the Articles , and the Homilies , are duly examined , they will be foundin all respects conformable with the sacred writings . To dissent , therefore , in this country , from the doctrines of the Established Church , is to dissent without a real cause , f Indeed , there are many who dissent without knowing , -whether the doctrines be different or the same .
But this dissent is dangerous in every view . It is dangerous to the person who adopts false notions in religion ; it is dangerous to his neighbour ; it is daingerous to the state . The religious dissentions in the Greek Empire , by diminishing
its strength , prepared its downfall by the Turks : and God grant , that the religious dissentions among ourselves , which unavoidably produce dissentions in the State , may not ultimately effect the downfall of Britain .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1809, page 621, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1742/page/35/
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