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I say, perhaps he cannot know.For who can tell how far invincible ignorance may extend?Or (that comes to the same thing) invincible prejudice, which is so fixed in tender minds that it is afterwards impossible to tear up what has taken so deep a root.And who can say, unless he knew every circumstance attending it, how far any mistake is culpable, seeing all guilt must suppose some concurrence of the will, of which he only can judge who searches the heart (Jeremiah 17:10)?
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5. I say, perhaps he cannot know. For who can tell how far invincible ignorance may extend? Or (that comes to the same thing) invincible prejudice: which is so fixt in tender minds, that it is afterwards impossible to tear up what has taken so deep a root. And who can say, unless he knew every circumstance attending it, how far any mistake is culpable? Seeing all guilt must suppose some concurrence of the will: of which he only can judge who searcheth the heart.