. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. hat Doctrines (hall be taught, & But if the Magiftrate, for the fake of the 5tate,can forbid the publick profeffioa of all Religions butone, why not that one? fince t believe, theres fcarceary where the proiefiion of but one has beenpermitted, but that Religion foon degenerated intoPrieftcrafr, to the entire ueilruction ofcMens civil li-berties; and the Magiftrate,--as well as his Subjects,has been foree to fubrozt to the arbitrary, and of his own Prirfis. I m
. Christianity as old as the creation, or, The gospel, a republication of the religion of nature. hat Doctrines (hall be taught, & But if the Magiftrate, for the fake of the 5tate,can forbid the publick profeffioa of all Religions butone, why not that one? fince t believe, theres fcarceary where the proiefiion of but one has beenpermitted, but that Religion foon degenerated intoPrieftcrafr, to the entire ueilruction ofcMens civil li-berties; and the Magiftrate,--as well as his Subjects,has been foree to fubrozt to the arbitrary, and of his own Prirfis. I m fhort, this noble fcheme, if theres any in it, is, that in all matters of Religion, wherepeople are capable of judging, they mult not, if theMag-irrare thinks net fit, openly prorefs their Reiigicn;and in ail other things , which depend on Book-learning , they are to be governd by their refpecttreParilh-Popcs. And if fuch a fcheme as this, coud re-commend the perfon that publnhd it , to a muchlarger Pariih-PcpesJom than he had before: air/ to conhder,\v!> the blood. &treafure which have been/pent to kap cut but onePope, has not been fpent in vain , if, inftead of thatone, we are now to have thoufands? - •. I do net , that the Apoftles taught there wxs, of which People were incapablect judging; icr thoMrn coud well be lower in paint
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