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 ¬relapsing into the very errors of the catholic church, by beating up for proselytes to your own establishment, instead of publishing the pure word of God as proceeding, through inspiration, from himself. — This was the damnable usurpa- tion of the papacy in the world 1 came from, and after having shed our blood for its ex- tinction, we should hardly submit to it again. — Any man, with us, may write what notes upon the Bible he pleases, but no man, nor the state itself, can put upon it any fetters of the law." -The old man made no reply to this, and I rather thought he was ashamed of what he had said. ¬I found after all when the differences came to be sifted between the Armatan church and many, at least, who had ranged themselves under various establishments of dissent, that they had arisen, for the most part, from the adoption of mysteries as inexorable articles of faith, instead of softening them by expressions ¬that, ¬