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private spirit , tome it-is indiffer * ent . And he that is otherwise affected , and hath not a traveller ' s indifference , which Epictetus re * quires in all that would And the truth , but much desires , in respect
IIChoice of the Right Way . For liny desire is to go the right way to eternal happiness . But whether rfiis way lie ? on the right hand , or the left , or straight forward ; whether it be by following a living guide , or by seeking my direction in a book , or by hearkening to the secret whisper of some
of his ease , or pleasure , or profit , or advancement , or satisfaction of friends , or any human consi- * deration , that one way should be true rather than another ; it is odds but he will take his desire
that it should be so , lor an assurance that it is so . But I for my part , urrless I deceive myself , tvas , and still am so affected , as I have made profession , not willing , I confess , to take any thing upon . trust , and to believe it without
asking myself why ? No , nor able to command myself ( were I never so willing ) to follow , like a sheep , every shepherd that should take upon him to guide me ; or every
flock that should chance to go before me : but most apt and most willing to be led by reason to any way , or from it ? and always submitting all other reasons to this one God hath said so , therefore it is true .
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Chillingworth * 2 § 9
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ure pretended ; but there we few or none to be found : No traditiori but only of scripture can derive itself from the fountain , but may be plainly proved , either to have been brought in , in such an age after Christ , or that in such
an age it was not in . In a word , there is no sufficient certainty but of scripture only , for any considering man to build upon . This therefore , and this only , I have reason to believe : this I wjll
profess , according to this I will live , and for this , if there be occasion , I will not only willingly , bat even gladly , lose my life , though I should be sorry that Christians should take it from me . Propose nrje any thing out of this book ,
and require whether 1 beJieve it or no , &nd seem it never so incomprehensible to human reason , I Wilt subscribe it with hand and hgffi , as knowing no demonstratfpn can be stronger lhan this ;
God hath said so , therefore it is true . In other things , I will take DO man * s liberty of judgment from him ; neither shall any man take tiiW £ fvovn me . I will think no m $ ni the worse man , nor the worse Christian , I will love no roan the 1 < 5 S £ , for differing in opinion from ityg * And what measure I rnete
td others , I expect from them again . I am fully assured , that God does not , and therefore that Bi&n oiight not , to require any more of any man than this , to believe the scrjptiire to be God ' s uyord , tp endeavour to find tha true seme of it , and to live accordiiuk to it . This is the religion
which I have chosen after a long deliberation , nn < jf I am verily persuaded tfcat I have chosen wisely , much mot ^ wise ly ( hau if I had guided lifyaeif ^ cCordj og to jroiir IhurchN autbo ^ ity .
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Ill * Enemy to tLrrory Friend to the Erring . I undertook with a full reaol ^ fan to be an adV ? ts ^ ry l ^> § j&i errors , but a friend and servant
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 289, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/33/
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