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"THE LATEST FORM OF INFIDELITY" EXAMINEL

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LETTER

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MR. ANDREWS NORTON,

OCCASIONED BY HIS

"DISCOURSE BEFORE THE ASSOCIATION OF THE ALUMNI OF THE
CAMBRIDGE THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL,"

Our guides must direct us, and yet if they fail, God hath not so left us to them, but he
hath given us enough to ourselves, to discover their failings and our own duties. It is best
to follow our guides, if we know nothing better; but if we do, it is better to follow the
pillar of fire, than a pillar of cloud, though both possibly may lead to Canaan ;- but then
also it is possible that it may be otherwise.

STOR LIBRARY

NEW YORK

JEREMY TAYLOR.

BOSTON:

JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.

M DCCC XXXIX.

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LETTER.

DEAR SIR,

THE Occasion, as you justly observe, which called forth your Discourse before the "Alumni of the Cambridge Theological School," was one of more than common interest. It was the first anniversary of an Association, composed of ministers whose principal bond of union is personal respect and friendship; who are united by the sympathies of education and of devotion to similar pursuits; but who neither claim authority over each others' faith, nor profess to regard uniformity of speculative opinion, as desirable, even if it were possible. Many of them have been fellow-students at the same school; a common interest in theology first brought them together, and has not since divided them; others are connected by habits of social and professional intercourse; and all, it is to be presumed, are engaged in the investigation of truth, without being restrained by a creed which they have agreed to support.