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rudiments of all the monkish austerities in the opinions

and practices of the heathens, who thought to purify

and exalt the soul by macerating and mortifying the

body.

As to the abuses of the government of the Church,

they are as easily accounted for as abuses in civil gov­

ernment; worldly-minded men being always ready to

lay hold of every opportunity of increasing their power;

and in the dark ages too many circumstances concurred

to give the Christian clergy peculiar advantages over

the laity in this respect.

Upon the whole, 1 flatter myself that, to an attentive

reader of this work, it will appear, that the Corruption

of Christianity, in every article of faith or practice, was

the natural consequence of the circumstances in which

it waspromulgated;and also that its recovery frorn these

corruptions is the natural consequence of different cir­

curnstances.

To bring the whole (false Christian position) into a

short cornpass:

1. The General Council gave the Son the same nature
   with the Father.


2. Admitted the Holy Spirit into the Trinity.


3. Consigned to Christ a human soul in conjunction
   with the Logos.


4. Settled the hypothetical union of the divine and
   human nature of Christ, and


5. Affirmed, that in consequence of this union, the
   two natures constituted only one person.

It requires a pretty good rnernory to retain these dis­

tinctions, it being a business of words only, and ideas

are not concemed in it. 5/)

Priestly also wrote another book called The HistoTy ofJesus Christ,
sorne of which is reprinted here:

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