Excerpt from An Enquiry Into the Doctrine of the Church of England Upon AbsolutionAs we proceed, it will probably happen that I shall advance arguments which some will desire to dispute, and that I shall assert positions from which they will be eager to dissent. Many causes, which it is not now necessary for me to enter into in detail, will con duce to this and let me earnestly request the reader, to weigh dispassionately all that may be said, and, before he decides against the truth or the correctness of the conclusions at which we shall finally arrive, carefully to recollect whether he is or is not in¿uenced by previous habits of thought and prejudice, by a too great and long-established reliance upon authorities whose judgment he may not so accurately have ex amined, as he has hastily adopted, or, by a desire to consent to something which may look like an easier explanation of what he must own to be very difficult and obscure easier, not in the mode by which it seeks to remove the difficulty, but in the results to which it leads, and in the claims which it makes upon the active practice of those who accept it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.