lam, me solvet._" Opinor,
Hoc sentit: _Moriar. Mors ultima linea rerum est._

I conclude this notice of Liberalism in Oxford, and the party which was
antagonistic to it, with some propositions in detail, which, as a member
of the latter, and together with the High Church, I earnestly denounced
and abjured.

1. No religious tenet is important, unless reason shows it to be so.

Therefore, e.g. the doctrine of the Athanasian Creed is not to
be insisted on, unless it tends to convert the soul; and the
doctrine of the Atonement is to be insisted on, if it does
convert the soul.

2. No one can believe what he does not understand.

Therefore, e.g. there are no mysteries in true religion.

3. No theological doctrine is any thing more than an opinion which
happens to be held by bodies of men.

Therefore, e.g. no creed, as such, is necessary for salvation.

4. It is dishonest in a man to make an act of faith in what he has not
had brought home to him by actual proof.

Therefore, e.g. the mass of men ought not absolutely to believe
in the divine authority of the Bible.

5. It is immoral in a man to believe more than he can spontaneously
receive as being congenial to his moral and mental nature.

Therefore, e.g. a given individual is not bound to believe in
eternal punishment.

6. No revealed doctrines or precepts may reasonably stand in the way of
scientific conclusions.

Therefore, e.g. Political Economy may reverse our Lord's
declarations about poverty and riches, or a system of Ethics may
teach that the highest condition of body is ordinarily essential
to the highest state of mind.

7. Christianity is necessarily modified by the growth of civilization,
and the exigencies of times.

Therefore, e.g. the Catholic priesthood, though necessary in the
Middle Ages, may be superseded now.

8. There is a system of religion more simply true than Christianity as
it has ever been received.

Therefore, e.g. we may advance that Christianity is the "corn of
wheat" which has been dead for 1800 years, but at length will
bear fruit; and that Mahometanism is the manly religion, and
existing Christianity the womanish.

9. There is a right of Private Judgment: that is, there is no existing
authority on earth competent to interfere with the liberty of
individuals in reasoning and judging for themselves about the Bible and
its contents, as they s