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The disunion between ceriain great
personages in England , though generally known , does not excite much attention , and is seldom matter of discussion . The independent spirit displayed in our
parliamentary debates excites a degree of admiration of our free constitution nearly allied to jealousy : but it is the general opinion of well-informed men , that stronger institutions than ours are required for restraining Its esprits mutins of this restless people .
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CH 1 LLINGWORTH . " The Bible—the Bible only . ' * No . XIX His own Changes of Opinion . It seemes then , that they that hold errors , must hold them fast ,
and take speciall care of being convicted in conscience , that they are in error , for fear of being Schismatiques ! Protestants must continue Protestants , and Puritans Puritans , and Papists Papists , nay
Jewes , and Ttirkes , and Pagans , tnust remain Jewes , and Turkes , &nd Pagans , andgoe on constantly to the Divell , or else forsooth they rntist bee Schismatiyues , and that from themselves * And this ,
perhaps is the cause that makes Papists so obstinate , not only in their jcomtnon superstition , but also in adhering to the proper phancies of tfteir severall sects , so that it is a miracle to he&re of any j esuite ,
that hath forsaken the opinion of the Jesilites ; or any Dominican that hath changed his for the Jesuites . Without question ^ this gentleman , my adversary , knowes
none such or else tnethinkes he should not have objected it to J >* Potter . That he knew a man in
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the world who from a Puritan was turned to a moderate p [ tesfant , which is likely to bee true . But sure if this bee all his
fault hee hath no reason to be ashamed of his acquaintance . For possibly it may be a fault to be in error , because many times it pro . ceeds from a fault : but sure the
forsaking of . error cannot be a sinne , unlcsse to be ia error be a vextue . And therefore to doe as you doe , to darnne men for false
opinions , and to call them Schis . matiques for leaving them ; to make pertinacy in error , that is , an unwillingnesse to be convicted , or a resolution not to be convicted , the forme of heresie , and to find
fault with men , for being convicted in conscience that they are in error , is the most incoherent and contradictious injustice that ever
was heard of . But , Sir , if this be a strange matter to you , that which I ahall tell you will be much stranger- / know a man that from a moderate Protestant
turned a Papist , and the day that he did so , ( as all things that are done are perfected some day or other , ) . was convicted in
conscience , that his yesterdaies opinion was an error , and yet thinks hee was no Schismatique for doing so , and desires to be informed by you , whether or no he was mistaken ?
The same man afterwards upon better consideration , became a doubting Papist and of a doubting Papist a confirmed Protestant . And yet this roan thinks himselfe no more to blame for all these
changes , than a travailer , who using all diligence to find the right way to some remote citty , where he had never been ( as the partie I speak of had never been in heaven , ) did yet mistake it , and after find *
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630 Chillingworth
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 630, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/42/
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