Show flill nsjsS U LIGIOX convictions of the ncll ions Tiuc tlc ot DcmoCJnc reat 10 religious sects wnrrinj of f thiS flrp obtrusive dogmas III I agel i UK O crec < K of Thoinas Averse fmohm the pen the followl11g 110t be uninteresting It jcffctson manY before appeared in print limit t Oll settles the question 1158 1 ot onlv not U suite it nations of one of the of the rdigwj l1lsidents but i is at the country emrlY 1ogirtl 1reScnUition it ought 11I11 tulle S l siler1ble < attention The to tittimrL rittln ill reply to one from 1ttr I Wtt11 lIbY all eminent Quaker of Vi1IilIl1 i liad inquired as to his re W lao I his tillie thOuht JgiotI5 dul received your favor m V I I Imtvc I seilSiIi4 of time kinc of Aug jfiru whkh a1l1 it flows and truly Intention fl Om illOO S018 they could only for lImt111 I It of a fivonlile I estimation of Illt In > till reiIlit olmrP luring a long life as 111 pnllh Our I todiitvas a faithful dis imul lCSttCht time trust confided to t me would l > uriP of has occupied more of i Ht 011111 pVrhhhii flO Irlhon than our relations with U > rmoiu OIliIIrtttoll n0nsi nroU1I11IS our duties to them tht 1111 ftS JUte After hearing I 11111 1 our future tTthillg which probably > au11V h mmzgett I concerning them I have > III I II SAjtulnient t I 1 could as to 14eq JII tIl forzamvI I ihev itscribo and in due ob lS T1 of tlllY that Course I have no recol < lIII iVwiiich 1 Rive me any remorse A V of religious L V will preacher your 1 liiehard Molt in a discourse of I s ninction i and pathos is said to have r f lined aloud to his congregation that iul not believe there was a lkr Piesbyterian Methodist or Q5114r Having paused r4itit in heaven rJII Ie hi audience time to stare and iwnitr 1ZVe 11C > said that in neaven God now lio distinctions but considered all W 110 iSV ml men as his children and brethren of pJ family I believe with the IIP u sune imaker preacher that those who steadily oiwve 1 tho c moral precepts in which iJ roliponi concur will never be quos tlOmJ at tIll gates of heaven as to the ulJmflUS in whiih they difn rthat on uitonnir there all these are left behind us The Anstidi es and Catos Penns and Tillot onv 1reshyterians and Papists will fillli < themselves united in all principle princi-ple which ire in concert with the reason of the supreme mind Afith all the system I sys-tem of morality ancient and modern whah have coiiie under my obsenation I nll1r appear to me so pure as that of > > u > He who follows this steadily need not J t I think he uneasy although he can jut comprehend the mysteries and subtleties sub-tleties erected on His doctrines by those Mho calling themselves His special fol wrs and favorites would make Him omeinto tne world to lay snares for all understandings hut theirs The metaphysical heads usurping then the-n Tiient eat of God denounce as His enemies all who can not perceive the p1 Metrical logic of Euclid in the demon tnion of Alhanasius that three are in iand 1 one in three and yet that three iv not one nor the one three In all es wtial points you and I are of the same PVVo71 and 1 am too old to go into in nes and charges as as to the unessen 1 Relating therefore my thankful Vs for tho kind concern you have been good as to express I salute you with ndslnp and brotherly love THOMAS JEFFERSON iLeh1O Sept 17181U |