Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by some points in the history of Indian Buddhism / by T.W. Rhys Davids.
- Thomas William Rhys Davids
- Date:
- 1891
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by some points in the history of Indian Buddhism / by T.W. Rhys Davids. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![‘^Mr. Speaker,” said this barrister, “if none else “ blit the Bishop of Eochester or his adherents did hold “ this language, it would less trouble me. But since “ so many religious and different sects, now conspicuous “in the whole world, do not only vindicate unto them- “ selves the name of the True Church, but labour be- “twixt invitations and threats for nothing less than “ to make us resign our faith to a simple obedience, I “shall crave leave to propose what I think fit in this “case for us laiques and secular persons to do “ For as several teachers, not only differing in lan- “guage, habit and ceremony, or at least in some of “these, but peremptory and opposite in their doctrines, “do present themselves, much circumspection must be “used.” .... Then, after pointing out the difficulty of choosing between these “several teachers,” the gentleman from Gray’s Inn proposes that “. . . .he [the laique] shall hold himself to common, “authentic, and universal truths; and consequently “ inform himself what, in the several articles proposed “ to him, is so taught as it is first written in the heart, “ and together delivered in all the laws and religions “ he can hear of in the whole world; this certainly can “ never deceive him.” .... If this plan of arriving at truth be followed, “ it ivill “concern our several teachers to initiate us in this “ (universally accepted) doctrine before they come to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2486822x_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
