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Excerpt from A Sermon: Delivered in the Church in Federal Street, Boston, December 10, 1820
Religion, we are told, is a private, personal thing, a concern between the individual and God. His neighbour or the community must not meddle with it. Whether he have any religion or not, or a good or a bad one, is no one's business but his own - Vague language of this kind, which carries no definite meaning, but gives the general idea, that a man's religion is a subject in which society has no interest, and no right to use its in?uence, may do much in jury; and in opposition to it, 1 would maintain that religion is eminently a social principle, entering into social life, having most important hearings on the public weal, and that society has a deep concern in it, and cannot without violation of what is due to itself overlook or disparage it. The social charac ter of religion is not sufficiently regarded, and is the topick on which I beg to enlarge.
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