HKB
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Often appears with: forms of government · equity, mercy, and pardon · duty, conscience, and obligation · despair vs security · conscience · barbarism
Usually: argument (1) · the fall of the great (1) · censure (1) · indignation (1)
He concludes that requiring confession as God’s authorization is a tyrannical human imposition, introduced when people fell into barbarism, and it either crushes consciences with despair or flatters them into carelessness.
interpose his *veto*, and not suffer God of his mere goodness to receive any one into favour, unless he had lain prostrate before the tribunitial seat, and there been punished. XXIV. The whole argument comes to this—that if they will represent God as the author of this fictitious confession, it is a full proof of their error; for I have pointed out their fallacies in the few passages which they quote. But since it i…