Theologia Eklektike

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Excerpt from Theologia Eklektike¯: A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying, With Its Just Limits and Temper, Shewing the Unreasonableness of Prescribing to Other Men's Faith, and the Iniquity of Persecuting Differing Opinions The measure of freedom enjoyed in a country will always be in proportion to the diffusion of knowledge and virtue among the people. In the latter ages, therefore, of the degenerate Roman empire, over which the mists of ignorance were settling with increasing density, and from which public virtue had fled, all remains of liberty became extinct. It was only by the disruption and removal of that gigantic despotism, and by the introduction of governments, in its place, with institutions which, though yet in all the rudeness of infancy, were in their nature more favourable to the development of the intellectual, and, in a still higher degree, of the moral powers of man, that a way could be prepared for the future admission of every free agent to the full exercise of his natural rights. To the gradual establishment of a national church, and to the existence of a feudal nobility, in each of the kingdoms formed by the Gothic and Celtic races, we owe our present enjoyment of what we Justly deem the birth-right of moral and civilized human beings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.