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SltbjcripliolU to Articles of Rdigion. 151
tion itself be, but prejudicial to the particular end
propo~ed by the institution; for it is this last circwn ..
stallce which proves that the founder would have
dispellsed ·\o\,~th it in pursuance of his own purpose.'
The statutes of some colleges forbid the speaking
of an}' language but Latin, within the walls of the
college; direct that a i:ertain number, and not fewer
than that nUlnber, be allowed the use of an
apartment alnongst them; that so many hours of
each Jay be employed itl public exercises, I~ctures,
or disputations; and some other articles of discipline}
adapted to the tender years of the students,
w no in fl)rmer tinles resorted to universities. Were
con~ges to retain such rules, nobody LJw.a.days
would come near them. They are raid aside, therefore~
though parts of the statutes, and as such
included within the ~~'ith, nG( Hlerdy because they
are inconvenient, but ~cause there is sufficient reason
to believe, that the founders themselves would
have dispensed with them:: as subversive of their own
dc~igns.
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CHAPTER XXII.,
SUBSCRIPTIONTO ARTICLES OF RELIGION •
. / SUBSCRIPTION to Articles of Religion,
though no ffi0re than a declaration of the subscriber':o.
assent, may properly enough be considered in
com:exion mith the subject of oaths, because it is
governed by the ~ame rule of interpretation:!
(:"Which rule is the anil1lUJ inlpo.Y!entis.
The inquiry, therefore, concerning suoscription
will be, 'luis imposuit, ct quo animo.;
I The bishop who rec.eives the sub$;cripiiun, is net
the impose~ any more than the cry«:r of a court, who
administers the oath to the jury ~nd witnesse." is the
perSOll th'lt imposes it; nor, consequently, is the
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