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    his error , and amende it . Nay , he stands upon his justification so farre as to maintain that his altcrations 3 not only to you , but also from you by God ' s mercy , were

    the most satisfactory actions to himselfe , that ^ ver he did , and the greatest victories that ever he obtained over himselfe , and his affections to those things which in this world are most precious ; as

    wherein for God ' s sake and ( as he was verily persuaded , ) out of love to the truth , he went upon a cer . tain expectation of those incon . veniences , which to ingenuous natures are of all most terrible . So

    that though there were much weaknesse iftsome of these alterations ^ yet certainly there was no wickednesse . Neither does he yeeld his weaknesse altogether , without apologie , seeing his

    deductions were rational ] , and out oisome principles commonly re * ceived by Protestants as well as Papists , and which by his education had got possession of his understanding . *

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    No . XX . Forcing Conscience . I have learnt from the ancient fathers of the church , that notking is more against religion than to force religion ; and of S . Paule , the weapons of the Christian

    warfare are not carnalL And great reason , for humane violence may wake men counterfeit but cannot make them beleeve , and is therefore fit for nothing but to breed forme without , and Atheisme withw . Besides , if this means of

    The reader will perceive a difference of orthography in these different c * tractS p which is owing to their being j ? < fe / rom the different editions of ^^ MNCfWORTH . Ed .

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    bringing men to embrace any religion were generally used ( as if it may be justly used in any place by those that have power , and thinke they have truth , certainly

    they cannot with reason deny but that it may be used in every place , by those that have power as well as they , and think they have truth as well as they , ) what could follow

    but the maintenance perhaps of truth , but perhaps only of the profession of it in one place , and the oppression of it in a hundred ? What will follow from it but the

    preservation peradventure of unity , but peradventure only of uniformity in particular states and churches ; but the immortalizing the greater and more lamentable divisions of christendome and the

    world ? And therefore what can folJow from it , but perhaps in the judgment of carnall policie , the temporall benefit and tranquillity of temporall states and kingdomes , but the infinite prejudice , if not the desolation of the kingdome of Christ ? And therefore it well

    becomes them who have their portions in this life , who serve no higher state than that of England , or Spaine , or France , nor , this neither any further than they may

    serve themselves by it 5 who think of no other happinesse but the preservation of their owne fortunes and tranquillity in this world ; who think of no other means to preserve states , but humane power and Machivillian policie , and beleeve no other creed but this Regi aut civitati imperium habenii nihil injustum , quod utile ! Such men .

    as these it may become to maintaine by worldly power and violence their state instrument , religion * For if all be vaine and false , ( as in their judgment it is )

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    Chillingworth . 631

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 631, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/43/