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questions less weighty than these have in other ages been disposed of only with the point of the sword, and the thunder of cannon—put off, not settled.
If the opinions advanced in this Discourse be correct,
then Religion is above all institutions, and can never fail;
they shall perish, but Religion endure; they shall wax old
as a garment; they shall be changed, and the places that
knew them shall know them no more for ever; but Religion
is ever the same, and its years shall have no end.
