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private opinion or interpretation of the bishop u~
any signification to the snb"criber~ one way or other.
('The compilers of tl1~ thirt)·-11iI1e articles ~~re no~
to be consiJe~ed as the !inpf)SCrS of sub~cription,)
anv more than the t"ran1er or dra\~~·er uo of a la,v ~:-~'
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th~ person that enacts it .
./ The leoislature b- of t!1e 13 E/iz. is t!1e imnoser,
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whnse intention the s~ib~criber is bound to satisfy.)
They who contend, that nothing l{:'s~ can ju~tify
subscrintion I to the tl1irt' _ .. nine artjclfs, than tile actllal
belief of each and ever)~ separate propositi()n contaiIled
in them, i11ust sUl')PO~(~., th~t the legislature
expected the consent of ten tllouselld nlen-; and (hat
in perpetual Sllcc~ion, not to one contro,"erted
proposition, but to many hundred~. It is difficult
to conceive hO~i this (ould b~ expEcted h)T any, 'Nho
oG~~rved the incurable di\~er~it~y (If human opinion
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Ilpon all Stil"J~cts s ~ort or (~etncnstran..:~n.
. If the autllors ot- th'c ~d'T did !:ot ultfnd this,
what did th~y intend?
They iiltended to exclude fronl offic~s in thechuiech;
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:-:j)cttors 0 pClper~r. J
r 2. An21)apt!sts, \\·110 ,,:ere Gt th~t tinle a po\verfuI
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party r,n t:1C contInent.)
(3. 1'hE Ptlri{an~, ,\~hf) u-el-e ho~tile to an ~piscopal
Cl)nstltllr!C)TI; and, ill geller]I, tI-!C members of such
leading Sf"cts of ioreigIl es!ab!ishn1cllts as threatened
to o\1(Jrthtf)\a/ ()ur O\\~rl.!
'Vhcc,'cr finds himself comprehended withir..
these de~cript!(;ns, ought U(it to ~ub:;crib(·. Nor can
a Slll).-.,:;-:ber !o the articies take ~dl.'a;lta~(: of any lat.
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tituJe "rhich our rllle nl~y seem t() allo\\T, \vho is not
.... first cOl1vincc'd that he is truly and ~mbstantially satis.
fyi:!g" the intention of the legislature.
During thr: pres~nt !-tall' of ecclesiastical patronage.
in \\ i1icli pri vate in,lividuals are permitted to in1posc
tea~l1crs UPl)ll pari:sJ1e~, "rjrh. ,,'llicl1 they arc of tell
!itt;p or !lut at ~\11 COll;lectc(l, sonle 1!111jtation of the;
_ .~rOI1'S choice lila)' bel n(\c~~~ar)', t{) pi-event un(\(li ..
~·\'ill~· contclltic)llS l)ct f,,'.;CCll rlt'it!hbourin~ te,lcl1crs,
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