It is the first
time I have been questioned upon it. But I cannot take your
Curiosity amiss, and shall endeavour in a few Words to gratify it.
Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe.
That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be
worshipped. That the most acceptable Service we render to him is
doing good to his other Children. That the soul of Man is immortal,
and will be treated with Justice in another Life respecting its
Conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental Principles of
all sound Religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever Sect I
meet with them.
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly
desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left
them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I
apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have,
with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his
Divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never
studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I
expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble.
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