I. BAD GRAMMAR. For a passage teaching bad grammar by example, see p. 55. II. BAD LOGIC; viz. 1. By inculcation of matter plainly useless. See p. 19 to 25. 2. By inculcation of manifest surplusage. See P. 67.8. 3. By inculcation of matter plainly unintelligible. See p. 6 to 13. 17 to 27. 31. 32. 4. By inculcation of propositions inconsistent with one another. See p. 11. 12. 13. See 5. By inculcation of instruction, which is 6. By exemplification and consequent in- 40. See p. 28. 29. 30. 38. 39. 7. By inculcation of matter, repugnant to those thirty-nine Articles, to which the whole body of the Clergy-Bishops and Archbishops included-together with all other ruling and otherwise influential persons, who become partakers of that course of education which is in highest repute, will, upon entrance into that course, after being thus impregnated with the repugnant matter of this formulary, be forced to declare their assent and approbation on record. See p. 29. 30. 8. By inculcation of matter savouring of Popery. See p. 66 to 70. III. Matter, the tendency of which is—to operate, in various other ways, to the depravation of the INTELLECTUAL part of man's frame, viz. 1. Matter, by which the principle of vicarious obligation is inculcated: i. e. by which children are commanded to believe, that it is in the power of two or three self-appointed persons, by agreeing together, to oblige a young child, in conscience, to pursue to the end of his life, any course of conduct, which, at that time, it may please them to prescribe. See p. 4. 5. 6. 2. Matter, by which the young child is himself forced to utter a rash promise, binding him, during life, to pursue the course of conduct therein and thereby prescribed. See p. 13. 14. 3. Matter, by which the child is initiated in the art and habit of lax interpretation: i. e. of declaring, in relation to the discourse in question, whatever it may be, his persuasion, that such or such was the meaning, intended by the author to be conveyed by it: viz. whatever meaning it may at any time happen to suit the personal purpose of the interpreter so to convey, how wide soever of the import really so intended to be conveyed. See p. 45. 47 to 78. 4. Matter, by which the intellectual part of the child's frame is destined to be debilitated and depraved by groundless and useless terrors. See p. 8 to 11. 53. IV. Matter, the tendency of which is to operate, in various other ways, to the DEPRAVATION of the MORAL part of man's frame: viz. 1. Matter, in the texture of which Hypocrisy is plainly discernible. See p. 12. 13. 2. Matter, by which lying is inculcated as a duty :—a duty, which the child is forced to declare himself bound to persevere in the performance of. See p. 2. 3. 15. 18. 19. 31. 45. 46. 52. 3. Matter, by which Imposture may be seen to be promoted. See p. 47 to 78. 4. Matter, by which Forgery may be seen to be knowingly uttered. See p. 79. 80. 5. Matter, by which encouragement is given to sin and wickedness in every shape. See p. 75 to 78. V. Matter, the tendency of which is to operate, in an immediate way, to the injury of the SENSITIVE part of man's frame. Matter, by which groundless and useless terrors are infused, as above. |