Familiar Letters, Addressed to the Inhabitants of Birmingham, in Refutation of Several Charges Advanced Against the Dissenters and Unitarians |
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... Section IV . Of the Causes of Difference of Opinion , and the Reading of the Scriptures recommended . Section V. General Advices . 251 258 260 267 270 LETTER I. Of the feditious Tendency afcribed by Mr. Madan CONTENTS .
... Section IV . Of the Causes of Difference of Opinion , and the Reading of the Scriptures recommended . Section V. General Advices . 251 258 260 267 270 LETTER I. Of the feditious Tendency afcribed by Mr. Madan CONTENTS .
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... cause to fufpect his veracity ; and how Mr. Madan fhould conceive that this could be his cafe I cannot imagine . Recourfe fhould not be had to fuch pe- culiarly folemn forms of affeveration without necessity , be- cause it tends to make ...
... cause to fufpect his veracity ; and how Mr. Madan fhould conceive that this could be his cafe I cannot imagine . Recourfe fhould not be had to fuch pe- culiarly folemn forms of affeveration without necessity , be- cause it tends to make ...
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... cause we espoused ? We are ftill , however , ready , as on many former occafions , to do good for evil , and to fhew our loyalty on any future occafion , whenever we shall think the juft prerogative of the king , as well as that of the ...
... cause we espoused ? We are ftill , however , ready , as on many former occafions , to do good for evil , and to fhew our loyalty on any future occafion , whenever we shall think the juft prerogative of the king , as well as that of the ...
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... causes and effects , and then he will find himself compelled to give up his favourite hypothefis of the universal difpofition to re- publicanism , and confequently , as he will suppose , to anarchy , in the principles of the Diffenters ...
... causes and effects , and then he will find himself compelled to give up his favourite hypothefis of the universal difpofition to re- publicanism , and confequently , as he will suppose , to anarchy , in the principles of the Diffenters ...
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... cause so good , that it deferved to be promoted at the expence even of truth . You will alfo fee , by the account which I shall give you of their conduct , that mere zeal for the church is not the whole of their merit . They have fhewn ...
... cause so good , that it deferved to be promoted at the expence even of truth . You will alfo fee , by the account which I shall give you of their conduct , that mere zeal for the church is not the whole of their merit . They have fhewn ...
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