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Remarks Upon a Late Discourse of Free-Thinking; In a Letter to F. H
Remarks Upon a Late Discourse of FreeThinking In a Letter to F H Author:Richard Bentley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1743 Original Publisher: Printed by J. Bentham for W. Thurlbourn; and sold by Knaptons, Manby, and Beecroft, London Subjects: Free thought Apologetics Religion / Philosophy Religion / Christian Theology / Apologetics Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the o... more »riginal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: XXIV. Well, but Vl'y the Go/pel itfelf, and our Saviour and his Apoftles by their own Example, recommend Free-thinking. Grant the Scribler this Argument ; if Free-thinking is taken in its legitimate fenfe, as Chillingworth, Hooker, and Wilkin s made ufe of that Freedom. But if he juggles as ufually in the Term of Art ; what greater Nonfenfe, Than that Chrift and his Difciples fhould recommend Atheifm ? But our Author's Learning is here again admirably difplay'd. St. Paul, fays he, when he went into the Synagogues of the Jews, and reafon'd with them, took a very extraordinary Jiep, as now it would be looked on ; and fo he compares it to P E N N the Quaker going into St. Paul's, or Mr. Whist On into the Houfe of Convocation, to reafon there againft the Ejlablijh'd Church. Penn's Name has been long known among us in Germany and the latter we have lately heard of in the Journals and Bibliotheques. But how ignorant and ftupid is this Writer with his foolifli Comparifon ? The Fact he fpeaks, of and . quotes, ASis xvn. 2, 3. was done at loniccrt lonica, a Pagan City in Macedonia: and was the Jewijh Synagogue the Ejlablifh'd Church there ? or rather allow'd upon toleration ? But to pardon him this, and fuppofe the thing done in Judea itfelf, where our Saviour often did the fame; was it any thing like to interrupting Divine Service, or difturbing the Proceedings of a Synod? Our Author knows not on...« less