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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...

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