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Fallacies Ch. | | Authority worshipper

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. 4. Churchman's Sinister interest

of The sinister interests to the action of which the probity of a Churchman stands exposed the following circumstances of his condition may be stated as the sources.

1. On his entrance into his profession, and as a condition of his being admitted to a sahre in the priviledges /advantages of all kinds/ attached to it, he has made a solemn and deliberate and solemn and notorious declaration, asserting his belief of the truth of a large collection of propositions framed so long ago as the 1562, (+) and of which the date consideration being had of the ignorance and violence of the times and /compared with/ the obscurity of the subject constitute of itself in every reflecting mind a conclusive proof of its contacting a multitude of propositions absurd in themselves and so absurd as not to be capable of being really believed /on which ground no absurdity so gross but may be and has been believed or endeavoured to be believed/ on any other ground than that of mere authority, by any man at present.