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      will follow Win only ui his action , and not in his passion 5 in his opposition , riot in the manner of it : And then f presume you will have no reason to condemn us , unless you will say that a good action cannot be done with reason , because somebody before us hath done . it upon passion .

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      by tyranny and worldly advantage , he that could assort CbriS f tians to that liberty which Christ and his apostles left them , must needs do truth a . most heroic at service . And seeing the overva * luing of the differences among Christians , is one of the greatest maintainers of the schisms of Christendom j he that could demoastrate that only those points of belief are simply necessary to salvation , wherein Christians generally agree , should he not lay a > very fair and firm foundation of the peace of Christendom ?

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      No . XXXIIL . Protestants Orthodox . The sum of your discourse in the four next sections , if it be pertinent to the question in agita * tion , must be this : Want of

      succession of bishops and pastors * holding always the same doctrine , and of the forms of ordaining bishops and priests which are in use in the Roman church , is a certain mark of heresy : bat Pro * - tenants want all these things ; :

      therefore they are hereticks . To which I answer , that nothing but want of truth , and holding error , can make or prove any man or church heretical . For , if he be a true Aristotelian , or PJatonist , or Pyrrhonian , or Epicurean , who holds the doctrine of

      Aristotle , or Plato , or Pyrrhp , or Epicurus , although he cannot assign any that held it before him for many ages together ; why should I not he made a true and

      orthodox Christian , by believing all the doctrine of Christ , though I canno * derive my descent from a per * petiml succession that believed it before me ? Bv this reason , you

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      As for Luther ' s speeches , I told you not long since , that we follow no private irien , and regard not much what he says either

      against the Church of Rome or for it , but what he proves . He was a man of a vehement spirit , and very often what he took in hand , he did not do it , but

      overdo it . He that will justify all his speeches , especially such as he wrote in heat of opposition , I belierye will have work enough . Yet in these sentences , though he dfetfreach in the particulars , yet

      wbat he says in general we confess true * and confess with him . That in the Papacy arc many gbbdt things ' , which have come from them to us ; but withal we say tliere are many bad , ^ either do we think ourselves bound in

      prudence to reject the good with tfie bad , or to retain the bad with the gppd , but rather conceive it a high point of wisdom to separate between the precious and the vile , to sever the good from the bad , and to put the good in vessels to be kept , and to cast the b ^ awajf ; to try all things and to hold that which is good .

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      No . XXXII . Heroical Service * Seeing falsehood and error could ftot J ° £ stand against the ppwer ° f . / trolly were they not supported

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 747, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/19/