Nor does its judgment preclude the individual duty to examine into the truth of things.

The real root of faith is not the possession of an infallible dogma, but the arriving honestly at the dogma in which you happen to believe.

For the magistrate, he urges, what is important is not the table of your springs of action, but the conduct itself which is based upon that table; from which it follows that things like the Test and Corporation Acts have no real political validity.

They have been imposed upon the State by the narrow interpretations of an usurping power; and the Nonconformist claim to citizenship would thus seem as valid as that of a member of the Church of England.
All this sounds sensible enough; though it is curious doctrine in the mouth of a bishop of that church.

And this, in fact, is the starting-point of Law's analysis of Hoadly.