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    not attainable in nature : it must therefore be the duty of all Chris , tians to exercise mutual forbear * ance towards each other , ^ nd to be ready to allow all men the same liberty which they desire and expect should be extended towards themselves *

    As I have great reason to sup- * pose Lady to be possessed of more charity , than to dislike any person merely for following the dictates of his conscience ; so I

    strongly suspect ( hat some base falsehood relating to my moral character has , by some ill-designing person been conveyed to her ladyship , which I only want a

    proper oppportunity to obviate * I would fain flatter myself that no man who calls himself a minister of the gospel of Christ would act so ungenerpus a part ; since it is their duty especially to be gentle towards all men and both to prac *

    lige themselves and to persuade others , to speak evil of no man : and to Jo as mych as in them lies , tha , t all bitterness , and wrath , and anger , and clamour , and evil-speaking with all ipalice be banished from the Christian world .

    —However , it is too evident , that even such are found often to forget themselves on some particular ooc ^ sions ; wherei n , according to all ipy notions of religion they ought to sfrew jthemselves examples of every good-natured and com *

    p * 8 pu > nate virtue . And this is the jnore to be lamented from its n ^ lancholy effects t it being cer * tftjp , t ^ at a zeal without charity is far more pernicious in its con *

    sequences , than a zeal without fcnpwledge . I cannot forbear to pUy - « PV » iy « ycfe furious bigot , and ^ peci ^ ly thwe , ( whoever they « # * £ \ vb& htove to lately . in } ured

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    me in particular : I am conn dent they will find but little fr ^ rit in ife , besides repeqtance £ ; ^ s- it can afford them but small consolation in a most serious and not far-dis ~ tant hour to reflect on their

    having done all that lay within their power to deprive a poor man of the means of procuring bread for his tender helpless offspring . I leave the impartial world to judge

    of the provocation I have ever given to such treatment : as I have made it my constant study to be quiet and to do my own business , which I have still followed

    with the utmost application in order to provide a necessary sub * sistence for my family . —And as my separation was entirely ^ free from all venal motives , so I can truly assert , . that I a ? ra attached

    to no interest , but that of virtue and my Redeemer : neither have I made any attempts of propagat * - ing my opinions , or of gaining proselytes thereto ; ch using rather to leave all m (? n to ths direction .

    of their own consciences in a mat * , ter of so momentous a nature . - ^ I shall only add farther , that if difference of sentiments were to exclude from the common inteiv courses of life , this must , neces *

    sanly be subver * ive of all society ; an $ render the religion of Christ * ( whose peculiar glory consists in th ^ t extensive l ov ^ and * charity U enjoins ) a means of filling the world with those destructive vices

    of envy , hatred and malice : aod of reducing mankind to that dte * plorable state in which tbs gospel foupd thenii—namely , to be •? h ate . fill ^ nd ha ting one Anotber »"~ " -I b 1 > cl 11 dilajte no longer on the ungrateful subject j but ^ shal l re * li ^ vp . y < mr patience ; , oa : whicbi I % m « enjtiW& X hiftve already moat

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    214 Letters of Mr . Bartholomew Hoar e . — Letter I

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 214, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/6/