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Excerpt from The Inquisition and Judaism: A Sermon Addressed to Jewish Martyrs, on the Occasion of an Auto Da Fe at Lisbon, 1705
On enquiring into the true motives that can possi bly induce Israelites to renounce the faith Of their fathers, we cannot divest ourselves of the suspicion that a craving for mundane honors, and an unruly ambition upon which religious sentiment holds no check, may have great weight with some men, and may lead them to prefer the momentary gratification wh ch the parade and circumstance of power confers, to the favor of the Supreme Being and the approbation of conscience. To attempt to argue with such un principled men, if such there be, would be utterly hopeless for little can the words of mortals avail with persons who are deaf to the voice of God and reckless Of their eternal bliss.
Others, again, there are, whose abject poverty ren ders them Obnoxious to the pecuniary bait held out by the wily agents of the Society. We are hardly prepared to suggest a remedy in this case, indisposed as we are to attempt to bind men to their creed by mere worldly considerations: yet would we venture to urge on the consideration of the more Opulent bers of our community, the absolute necessity of taking a deep and lively interest in the condition of their poorer brethren, of ascertaining their mental and physical wants, and of endeavouring to protect them.
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