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92 LETTEES.
vindictive, and intolerant proceeding, were to
lead to any cruel punishment, the proceedings
of the Court, and aU concerned in them,
would be viewed by sensible, just, and Hberal
men in this age, and by all men in future ages,
with the abhorrence in which all men hold the
Courts of inquisition, and the jurisdictions of
barbarous times, by whom similar martyrdoms
have been perpetrated.
8. Because it is not only wicked, but
absurd and unjust, for any man to set up his
own opinions as standards of theological faith
for the implicit guide of any other man.
9. Because it has been invariably found
that, where the mind has had its free exercise,
mankind have founded different points
of faith on the same system of rehgion ; and
that such variation arises from the varied
dispositions of men, and proves the absurdity
of restraint, or of legislating on matters of
religious opinion.