Excerpt from The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Vol. 5 of 8: With the Life of Lord Bolingbroke, Now Enlarged by More Recent Information Relative to His Publick and Personal Character, Selected From Various Authorities
I come from reading, in Barbeyrac's translation of Tillotson's Sermons, the discourse you mentioned on a late occasion; and the effect of it has been to confirm me in this opinion, that tine theist is a much more formidable enemy to the atheist than the divine. The former takes all the real advantages against a common adversary, which the latter has it in his power to take; hut he gives none against himself, as the latter is forced to do. When the divine writes or disputes on any subject, relative to his profession, he is always embarrassed by his theological system; whether his mind be so or not, his tongue and his pen cannot be otherwise. A theist is under no constraint of this kind. He may speak the truth, such as it appears to him, when the divine, though it appears the same to him, must be silent.
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