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calculated to weaken either one or the other: contrariwise, they
will see that I have strengthened religion, as I showed at the end of
Chapter X.; indeed [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], had it not been so, I should certainly have decided to
hold my peace, nay, I would even have asserted as a way out of all
difficulties that the Bible contains the most profound hidden mysteries;
however, as this doctrine has given rise to gross superstition and other
pernicious results spoken of at the beginning of Chapter V. [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I have thought
such a course unnecessary, especially as religion stands in no need of
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superstitious adornments, but is, on the contrary, deprived by such
trappings of some of her splendour.
(6) Still, it will be said [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], though the law of God is written in the heart,
the Bible is none the less the Word of God, and it is no more lawful to say
of Scripture than of God's Word that it is mutilated and corrupted. (7) I
fear that such objectors are too anxious to be pious, and that they are in
danger of turning religion into superstition, and worshipping paper and ink
in place of God's

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