without knowing what he is doing, bein or, Ted a member o? the univerfity } at which time heįubIefibes the thirty-nine articles of religion, though. �olle e, he is obliged to be matriculated, or admit. Within fifteen days after his admiffu?n into any But I am persuaded, that that excellent person would think it a very laudable design, as the value of things is so much alter'd since the foundation of most colleges, to have the statutes also alter'd because many scrupulous persons, however safely they might do it, will not take an oath in any other, than the plain, literal, and grammatical sense of it: neither, in strictness, ought the contrary to be commonly practis'd, because it depreciates the value of an oath, and opens a door to numberless evasions and prevarications. Whether a person, who has an estate of inheritance in land, or a perpetual pension of above five pounds per annum, as things now stand, may with equity, and a good conscience, take the aforesaid oath and has determin'd it in the affirmative. To give a ju st account of the state of the univer sity of Oxford, I mu st begin where every fre shman begins, with admi s sion and matriculation for it so happens, that the fir st thing a young has, with great judgment and accuracy, discuss'd this point viz. THERE cannot be a plainer proof that any society wants a reformation, than to shew undeniably that it is faulty in its con stitution, as well as its morals that the laws made for its pre servation and well-being are, many of them, wicked, unrea sonable, ridiculous, or contradictory to ane another that, for the mo st part, tho se laws, which are so, are more in si sted upon, and more rigorou sly executed than tho se which are no so and that errors, of some kind or other, either in the laws them selves, or in the abu se of them, appear almo st in every particular. Quo semel e st imbuta recens, servabit Odorem Te sta diu.
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