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John Knox Witherspoon was a Presbyterian minister, a president of what is now Princeton University, and a signer of the US Declaration of Independence. As a politician, he was a staunch nationalist and republican; as a minister, he was an evangelical opponent of the Moderate Party of the Church of Scotland. In 1768, he became the sixth president of The College of New Jersey at Princeton, where he...

2. The same thing shews the danger of error, as well as ignorance. Among many loose and pernicious principles, which are zealously spread, and blindly embraced in this age, one of the most prevailing and dangerous is, the innocence of error. “O, say some, every man is to enquire freely, and each will embrace what appears to him to be the truth. It is no matter what a man believes, if his life be good. Even he who mistakes, may be as acceptable to God as his opposite, if he is equally sincere.” Now
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