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Three centuries ago, the Church in this land awoke from a dream of ages. In her re-constitution, certain great principles w'ere asserted. For example, that which is now embodied in her Sixth Article — that nothing is to be required of any man to be believed as necessary to salvation which is not contained in, or may be proved by. Holy Scripture. It will be plain to any reasoning mind, that such an admission is destructive of a prescribed national faith, just in proportion as the intelligence of... the nation increases ; unless indeed that increase of intelligence should bring about a general consensus in the interpretation of Scripture as to matters required to be believed. The assertion of liberty of conscience here made was absolutely inconsistent with the coercion of belief, — 160 ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES. and of worship, the utterance of behef, — assumed in the state constitution of the National Church. The reader need not be reminded that this was ere long- perceived, and that measures were taken in remedy.
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