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It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on the world as a mass of truth, and as the word of God; they have disputed and wrangled, and have anathematized each other about the supposeable meaning of particular parts and passages therein; one has said and insisted that such a passage meant such a thing, another that it meant directly the contrary, and a third, that it meant neither one nor the other, but something different from both; and this they have called understanding the Bible.
A graceless tyrant who neither fears God, nor regards man, may view, his subjects as made for him, and think himself entitled to deprive them at his pleasure, of every comfort, and even life. This hath been the avowed sentiment of many an eastern despot. But it is not supposeable of a good man "the man after God's own heart," though now seduced into certain heinous sins.
"God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man," Is it then supposeable that he can produce it by direct efficiency? But suppose him to produce it, Suppose it to derive immediately from him. Is its nature altered? Is it less criminal or odious? God forbid that we should make the supposition! It is a compound of absurdity and blasphemy!
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