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the present whatsoever , is better than any , because it is already settled : and alteration of it may draw with it change of states , and the change of state the subversion
of their fortune * * But the } ' that are indeed servants and lovers of Christ , of truth , of the church , and of mankind , ought with all courage to oppose themselves against it , as a common enemy of
all these . They that know there is a King of kings , and Lord of lords , by whose will and pleasure kings and kingdomes stand and fall , they know , that to no king or state any thing can bee profitable which is unjust ; and that nothing
can bee more evidently unjust , than to force weake men by the profession of a religion which they beleeve not , to loose their owne eternall happinesse , outofavaine and needlesse fcare , lest they may possibly disturb their temporall quietnesse #
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No . XXI . Playing the Pope . Ycm find fault with D . Potter for his vertues : you are offended with him for not usurping the authority which he hath not : in a
word , fur not playing the Pope . Certainly if Protestants be faulty in this matter , it is for doing it too much , and not too little . This presumptuous imposing of the senses of men upon the words of God ,
the speciall senses of men upon the generall words of God , and lading them upon mens consciences together , under the cquall penaltie of death , and damnation : this
viiine conceit that we can speak of the things of God , better than in the word of God : this deifying urowne interpretations ^ and ty-
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rannous inforcing them upon others ; this restraining of the word of God from that latitude
aad generality , and the under , standings of men from that liberty wherein Christ and the apostles left them , is , and hath been the onely fountaine of all the schismes of the church , and that which
makes them immortall : the com . mon incendiary of Christendorae , and that which ( as I said before ) teares into pieces , not the coat , but the bowels , and members of Christ : Ridente Turcd nee dolcntg
Judcqo . Take away these vvals of separation , and all will quickly be one . Take away this persecuting , burning , cursings damning of men for not subscribing to the words of men as the words oi God ; require of Christians onely to beleeve Christ , and to call no
man master but him onely ; let those leave claiming infallibility that have no title to it , and let them that in their wordsdisclairae it . disclaime it likewise in their
actions . In a word , take away tyrannie , which is the devils in . strument to support errors , and superstitions , and impieties , in the severall parts of the world , which could not otherwise long withstand
the power of truth , I say take away tyrannie , and restore Christians to their just and full liberty of captivating their understanding to scripture onely , and as rivers
when they have a free passage , runne all to the ocean , so it may well he hoped by God ' s blessiffg , that universall liberty thus moderated , may quickly red uce Christendome to truth and unitie .
These thoughts of peace ( I am peruaded ) may come from the God of peace , and to his blessing J commend them .
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632 Chillingworth .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 632, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/44/
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