Some Account of the Life And Death of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester Who Died J
Some Account of the Life And Death of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester Who Died J
Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715
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To the greatest part of this he seemed to assent, only he excepted to the belief of Mysteries in the christian religion ; which he thought no man could do, since it is not in a man's power to believe that which he cannot comprehend, and of which he can have no notion. The believing of mysteries, he said, made way for all the jugglings of priests ; for they, getting the people under them in that point, set out to them what they pleas- ed ; and giving it a hard name, and calling it a mystery, the... people were tamed, and easily believed it. The restraining a man from the use of m women, except one in the way of marriage, and denying the remedy of divorce, he thought unreasonable impositions on the freedom of mankind. And the business of the clergy, and their maintenance, with the belief of some authority and power con- veyed in their orders, looked, as he thought, like a piece of contrivance. And why, said he, must a man tell me, I cannot be saved, unless I believe things against my reason, and then that I must pay him for telling me of them ?
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