Excerpt from An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine However beautiful and promising that Religion is in theory, its history, we are told, is its best refutation; the inconsistencies, found age after age in its teaching, being as patent as the Simultaneous contrarieties of religious Opinion manifest in the High, Low, and Broad branches of the Church of England.

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