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no more in a man s power , than his stature or his feature ; and he that
tells me I must change my opinion for his , because 'tis the truer and the better , without other arguments that have to me the force of conviction , may as well tel ! me I must change
my grey eyes for others like his that are black , because these are lovelier pr more in esteem . He that tells me I must inform myself , has reason , if I do it not . But if I endeavour it all
that I can , and perhaps more than he ever did , and yet still differ from him ; and he that , it may be , is idle , will have me study on and inform myself better , and so to the end of my life 5 then I easily understand what he means by informing , which is , in short , that I must do it till I am of his
opinion . If he that , perhaps , pursues his pleasures or interests as much or more than I do , and allows me to have as good sense as he has in all other matters , tells me I should be of his opinion , but that passion or interest blinds me ; unless he can convince me how or where this lies , he is but
where he was , only pretends to know me better than I do myself , who canapt imagine why I should not have as much care of my soul , as he has of his .
A man that tells me my opinions are absurd or ridiculous , impertinent or unreasonable , because they differ from his , seems to intend a quarrel instead of a dispute , and calls me fool or madman with a little more
circumstance ; though perhaps I pass for one as well in my senses as he , as pertinent in talk , and as prudent in life . Yet these are the common civilities in religious argument of sufficient and conceited men , who talk much of right reason , and mean always their
own ; and make their private imagination the measures of general truth . But such language determines all between us , and the dispute conies to e « d in three words at last , which it might as well have ended in at first—That he is in the right , and I am in the wrong . Observations on Unit . JProv . 8 ro , 7 th ed . 1705 , pp . 191—193 .
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366 Gleanitigs .
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have denied them a share of common sense . The present cry is acainst them , and if it continue a few years they must be a prey to moths and worms , to the great detriment of young students in divinity , not to say to the public in general . I think they have not had a fair trial . Their works are locked up in the learned languages ; many pieces have been ascribed to them , which , were they alive , they would disown and be ashamed of . Hence they are swollen
to ari enormous bulk . Then comes an enemy , and culls out of these spurious pieces exceptionable passages , produces them before a packed jury , the laugh goes round , and they arc condemned in the lump . Dr . Knowles , 1766 , in Nichols ' s Lit . Anec . ii . 130 .
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No . CCXXVI . The Fathers . Some have thought nothing too much to he said in their praise > others
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No . CCXXVII . Divine Right . Lord Molesworth , in the Preface to his " Account of Denmark , * ' relates that , " In January , 168 S , S 5 Car . II . there was a call of 16 se ? -
jeants at law , who gave rings with this motto , A Deo Rrx , d Rege Lex , wherein the divine right of the impious will of a tyrant is as strongly asserted , as it could be in the compass of a ring . "
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No . CCXXVIII . Krumbnltz , the Hamburgh Divine . I am told that the famous combustion raised some years ago at Hamby one Krumbultz , a divine , and in which that free city had like to have perished , was occasioned by this momentous question , namely , whether in the Lord ' s Prayer we should say , Our Father , or Father our .
Will the world never learn , that one man ' s corn grows not the worrfe because another man uses different words in his devotion ? That pride and anger , wealth and power , are ° i no religion ? And that religion is iPseparable from charity and peace ? Cato ' s Letters , No . 48 . H . 1 °° -
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No . CCXX 1 XBand of Robbers . A single robber , or a few associates , are branded with their genuine name ; but the exploits of a - nu merous band assume the character of a tawj and honourable war . ntr Gibbo * , VL ^ V
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 366, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/38/
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