Thoughts on nature and religion. Or, an apology for the right of private judgment / maintained by Michael Servetus [i.e. P. Blair] M.D. in his answer to John Calvin. [Anon].

  • Blair, Patrick, M.D., of Cork, active 1738-1780.
Date:
1774
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Thoughts on nature and religion. Or, an apology for the right of private judgment / maintained by Michael Servetus [i.e. P. Blair] M.D. in his answer to John Calvin. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *7 1 h It may induce us to commit. I fhall therefore throw afide all evidence, built merely on the affertion of others ; and confider things only as my reafon flip- ports my belief. I difregard the cenfure of the clergy, I look on my reafon and ccnfcience to be implanted in me by God, for to dired my judgment; and that they are to be the witneffes, to give evidence at the laft day, of my thoughts and actions while on earth. I look on it as blafphemy, to put this evi¬ dence of God, in competition with the affertions of men. And I am convinced that I fhall be acquitted or condemned, as I fhall be found to have afted agree¬ able or difagreeable to their admonition, and that it will not be accepted, as an excule for my trank grelfions, that a diffidence of my own judgment, induced me to throw afide thefe monitors implanted in me by God, and in their place to have adopted the opinions of fallible men. / C H A P