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If we make a just computation, and take in the primitive martyrs with the Prophets and Apostles themselves, the professed defenders of Truth, only for Truth's sake, will be found to be a small handful with respect to the numerous partisans of error.

— 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.

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

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

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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.

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