true religion as is necessary to present pea< and final salvation, is an object of much importance, and we hope not totally impracticable; more than this may justly be considered as neither practicable, nor, if attained, of any great moment or advantage *.

2. Hence it may appear, that all which can reasonably be proposed by such a formulary of doctrine as we have above described, is, not absolutely to preclude every diversity of opinion, which, as we have observed, is impossible, but to confine this diversity within certain limits; not to fix one precise and indivisible sense to the arti

* "Il y a de certaines idées d'uniformité, qui saisissent quelquefois les grands esprits, mais qui frappent infailliblement les petits. Ils y trouvent un genre de perfection qu'ils reconnoissent, parce qu'il est impossible de ne le pas découvrir; les mêmes poids dans la police, les mêmes mesures dans la commerce, les mêmes loix dans l'etât, la même religion dans toutes ses parties Mais cela est-il toujours à propos sans exception ?—Et la grandeur du génie ne consistcroit-ellc mieux à scavoir, dans quels cas il faut de l'uniformité et dans quels cas il faut des differences?"

peace and edification; since, after all that can be done, shades of difference will still remain, which can only be fully dissipated in that world of light,, where we shall km even as we are known.

To require therefore a complete unity of sentiment in all the members of a church, is nugatory; and to pretend it is fallacious To draw up a number of articles, some of them upon the most abstruse points in divinity, with a declared design to prevent diversity of opinion, and to establish consent touching true religion, is the most Utopian of all projects; if such a declaration be meant so rigorously as to exclude the least variety of apprehension. Far les3 extravagant was the fancy of the emperor Charles the Fifth, when he proposed to bring a multitude of clocks and watches to keep exact time with one another. To have brought these machines so near to perfection as to answer all the useful purposes of life, would have been laudable; an attempt to bring them nearer was a point of vain and fruitless curiosity. In like manner to true religion as is necessary to present pea* and final salvation, is an object of much importance, and we hope not totally impracticable; more than this may justly be considered as neither practicable, nor, if attained, of any great moment or advantage *.

2. Hence it may appear, that all which can reasonably be proposed by such a formulary of doctrine as we have above described, is, not absolutely to preclude every diversity of opinion, which, as we have observed, is impossible, but to confine this diversity within certain limits; not to fix one precise and indivisible sense to the arti

* "Il y a de certaines idées d'uniformité, qui saisissent quelquefois les grands esprits, mais qui frappent infailliblement les petits. Jls y trouvent un genre de perfection qu'ils reconnoissent, parce qu'il est impossible de ne le pas découvrir; les mêmes poids dans la police, les mêmes mesures dans la commerce, les mêmes loix dans Fêtât, la même religion dans toutes ses parties. Mais cela est-il toujours à propos sans exception ?—Et la grandeur du génie ne consisteroit-ellc mieux à scavoir, dans quels cas il faut de l'uniformité et dans quels cas il faut des differences?"

peace and edification; since, after all that can be done, shades of difference will still remain, which can only be fully dissipated in that world of light,, where we shall know even as we are known.

To require therefore a complete unity of sentiment in all the members of a church, is nugatory; and to pretend it is fallacious. To draw up a number of articles, some of them upon the most abstruse points in divinity, with a declared design to prevent diversity of opinion, and to establish consent touching true religion, is the most Utopian of all projects; if such a declaration be meant so rigorously as to exclude the least variety of apprehension. Far les3 extravagant was the fancy of the emperor Charles the Fifth, when he proposed to bring a multitude of clocks and watches to keep exact time with one another. To have brought these machines so near to perfection as to answer all the useful purposes of life, would have been laudable; an attempt to bring them nearer was a point of vain and fruitless curiosity. In like manner to true religion as is necessary to present pesf and final salvation, is an object of much importance, and we hope not totally impracticable; more than this may justly be considered as neither practicable, nor, if attained, of any great moment or advantage *.

2. Hence it may appear, that all which can reasonably be proposed by such a formulary of doctrine as we have above described, is, not absolutely to preclude every diversity of opinion, which, as we have observed, is impossible, but to confine this diversity within certain limits; not to fix one precise and indivisible sense to the arti

* " Il y a de certaines idées d'uniformité, qui saisissent quelquefois les grands esprits, mais qui frappent infailliblement les petite. Ils y trouvent un genre de perfection qu'ils reconnoissent, parce qu'il est impossible de ne le pas découvrir; les mêmes poids dans la police, les mêmes mesures dans la commerce, les mêmes loix dans l'etât, la même religion dans toutes ses parties Mais cela est-il toujours à propos sans exception ?—Et la grandeur du génie ne consistcroit-ellc mieux à scavoir, dans quels cas il faut de l'uniformité et dans quels cas il faut des differences?"