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and wished to become a Christian and found the Proteuant and Rof » an Catholic Clergyman each roundly asserting thatt his creed tras right , iiicL the other wrong , wliich- ' wofoM * lie give most credit to ^ the man w&o rested his cause or tfae cxarairtation of the pl&iu word of Gad ^ $# e Bible , or the man who would not allow
him to read it without his comment and notes ? 3 d . JD&n that church be on sure giounds , which is atfraid to allow its members to read the works of
aer opponents , at inquire for truth m any other books but her cwnf tinder pain of her heaviest censures ? 4 th . Is if : noli a solid proof of tt \ xth ) that Protestant churches are not afraid to atlowtheir
memfeeis to read any book , or abide any test ; tltat ' tney call earnestly Q » them to examine well on what foundation they stand , and take v ^^ mitting paim to put the scriptures into their hands ?
Stlu Hbw c&n rational men in the niiieleetttihi cehtiity submit / to l > e forbidden under pain of severe C 6 B 8 uc « , to read any work on rettgion or . morality ; can such itien be Capable of enjoying rational liberty , or the gr ^ at privilege of thejfreedom of the press f
, 6 th . What solid reason can be given wby the simple New Testa * ifcent js forbidden the laity and Ae pootv ta whom the gospel was ptr cackfcdt , f th- L ^ t a rational man com * p * re tike ProteBtant and Catholic
translations of the Bible , and can he cpuscientiouisly say , * that there i * any difference in th « Protestant kramlatio ^ which ca ; n either dorrup | or p # ^ rt the nii nd ? 8 tt . Whir is it then that so
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0 ntcli pains are taken to prevent the poor reading the Testament , that excommunication has beett threatened to those who keep it ; that it is represented as a curse in
the house ; and that no such pains are taken to prevent them feading and keeping the numberless lewd , immoral } and vile books and ballads , histories of robbers dtti murderers ' with which their houses
abound , to the great destruction df ' metals ? 9 th . Why is it that there I * -such aft outcry of ilfiberality against every Protestant , who
circulates any book which supports his religion , while every Eomari Catholic book-shop is filled with publications attacking it in thd most determined mantier , andE
every catechism represents it as a heresy , in which there is no salvation ? Thfnk on these things friy counw
trvmen * von are not fools orchiltrymen , you are not tools or emu dren !—you have reason , exercise it , —You talk : much of rights and privileges , learn then t 6 va ^ - lue and use the nrost sacred ri ^ hi
and privifegc of a rational being ^ liberty of conscience , for without this , under any constitution , matii is a slave I
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Religious Principles of Mr . Howard . Sir , Feb . 5 , l&ll . Whett I observed that you had given my letter respecting the writers on Materialism * ( p . 10 ) a
place in your last numbety I designed immediately to pursue the subject , till I tbtind ih # ther article , ( p . 19 ) whidh defliitnded my prior attention . YeMt eorr ^^ pondent , who has etff >* e § sted Mixi stlf offended by tdy speculations
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Religious Frinfiipfe * ef Mr . Howard . $ 9
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/35/
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