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Since Religion is calculated for reasonable Creatures, 'tis Conviction and not Authority that should bear Weight with them.

— John Toland Christianity not Mysterious (1696)

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The best method, I think, of communicating to others the Truth, is that by which a Man has learnt it himself.

Christianity not Mysterious (1696)

I hope to make it appear, that the use of reason in religion is not so dangerous as commonly represented.

Christianity not Mysterious (1696)

I hold nothing as an article of my Religion, but what the highest evidence forced me to embrace.

Christianity not Mysterious (1696)

Revelation was not a necessitating motive of assent, but a means of information. We should not confound the way whereby we come to the knowledge of a thing with the grounds we have to believe it.

Christianity not Mysterious (1696)

Such is the deplorable condition of our age, that a man dares not openly and directly own what he thinks of divine matters, though it be never so true and beneficial, if it but very slightly differs from what is received by any party, or that is established by law.

Christianity not Mysterious (1696)

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