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...pleasure that I saw the name of my very agreeable friend Mr. Whittingham at the bottom of a letter I received on Wednesday morning; and I am not at all...incapable of a rational defence. I perfectly agree with Lord Shaftesbury in his judgment, that religion has not so much to fear from its weighty adversaries...

...love, and for whose character I have the truest regard, has entertained some doubts which he caunot entirely get over, concerning a book which his earliest...incapable of a rational defence. I perfectly agree with Lord Shaftesbury in his judgment, that religion has not so much to fear from its weighty adversaries...

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...more than to find it usefull for that purpose."27 As a clergyman of irreproachable orthodoxy remarked: "It is certainly the duty of every rational creature...been educated, as he finds it capable or incapable of rational defence."28 By the end of the seventeenth-century the lines of that defense had become standardized....

..."It is certainly the duty of every rational creature," argued the dissenting cleric Philip Doddridge, "to bring his religion to the strictest test, and to retain or reject the faith in which he was educated, as he finds it capable or incapable of rational defense." So too Francis Atterbury, leader...

...disgusted at the subject7 he proposes to be debated in our future correspondence. "It does not 'terrify me7 to hear that a person whom I sincerely love, and for...incapable of a rational defence. I perfectly agree with Lord Shaftesbury in his judgment, that religion has not so much to fear from its weighty adversaries...