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v ' ealed ; but not therefore revealed became necessary to be believed .
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truths as are necessary to be professed ) : But to force either any man to believe what he believes not , or any honest man to dissemble what he does believe ( if
God commands him to profess it ) , or to profess what he does not believe , all the powers in the world are too weak with all the powers of hell to assist them .
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No . XXVII . Way to Heaven . Remove prejudice , even the balance , and hold it even , make — * w
it indifferent to you which way you go to heaven , so you go the true , which religion be true so you be of § it , then use the means and pray for God's assistance , and as sure as God is true , you shall be led into all necessarytruth .
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No . XXVIII .
Scripture the Bond of Union . Lastly , though you are apt to think yourselves such necessary instruments for all good purposes , and that nothing can be well done unless you do it ; that no Unity or Constancy in religion can be maintained , but inevitably Christendom must fall to ruin and confusion , unless you support it ; yet we that are indifferent , and impartial and well content that God should give us his own favours , by means of his own appointment , not , of our ch using , can easily collect out of these very words , that not the infallibility of yours , or of any church , but the apostles and prophets and eva ; : r gelisis , SfC . which Christ gave upon his as&itsion were designed
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] No , XXVI . Worldly Power—no power over ¦ ¦ ' •• jv Conscience * All the power in the world is neither fit to convince , nor able to compel a man ' s conscience to consent to any thing . Worldly ( e ^ 9 t may prevail so far as to toake tnen profess a religion which they believe not ( such men I mean . Li Wl * oknow not that there is a heiaven Provided for martyrs , and a hell fcr those that disschible such
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diaaJ , definitive , obliging sentence in controversies of religion , but only such a man , or such a society of men , as is authorised thereto * y ^ a " 1 m . * ft m
No . XXV . Unity of Opinion hopeless . Neither should you need to persuade us to seek such a means of ending all our controversies if we could tell where to find it . But tbiswe know that none is fit to pronounce for all the world a
juby God . And , besides , we are able to demonstrate , that it hath not been the pleasure of God to give to any man or society of men anyJHich authority . And there- ' iqjTjB thopghr we wish heartily that alljcantrovexsies wereended , as ws do , that alUip , were abolished , y ^ t we have little hope of the one
ovtbe Qth $ r 'till the world be , eojted : an 4 in the mean while , think it best to content ourselves with and to persuade others unto , an unity of charity and mutual toleration ; seeing God hath authorized no man to force all men to unity of opinion .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 683, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/23/
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