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and warm, it may be, but uncharitable hearts, assume to themselves exclusively the mien and pretensions of righteousness; and who endanger the safety of the Church, by creating divisions between the members of the same body, merely because they do not all confine themselves to preaching perpetually upon the same text; as if the Saviour of the world were not an example of Godly life, and a preacher of righteousness, as well as a sacrifice for sin.

As this, however, is a subject upon which it will be found that I have entered, elsewhere, pretty fully, I will not dwell further upon it here; but content myself with expressing my humble hope that the Bishops of our Church, not unworthy of the Apostolic stock from which their high and holy lineage can be traced, may persevere, successfully, in their exertions to soften the asperity of feelings which in

subordinate zeal, or defective charity, may have engendered-and that all who are admitted into the ministry of the Church, may study more and more, after the pattern of their Divine Master, "to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.' Thus will they be best enabled to defy the shafts of Sectarianism on the one hand, and of Philosophy, falsely so called, on the other.

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And now, as to what I have written, if my heart deceive me not, my object has been the advancement of true religion, and therein the benefit of my fellow creatures; and so far am I from thinking highly of that share of it which properly belongs to myself, that I am content to consider all its worth as resting upon the wisdom and learning of those great and good men from whose writings I have drawn so largely.

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