MR. TAYLOR' S THIRD REPLY. 281 



The fairness of " partial extracts." 



" withstand them to the face because tliey are to he hlamedj^ 

 still, would I ^' count them not as ' enemies,' but admonish 

 them as hrotliersJ' Least of all, would I reproach them for 

 their helief. I would unswervingly uphold the inviolable sanc- 

 tity of opinion ', believing that a sincere faith is amenable to 

 no human " accusation/' but is accountable to G-od alone, — 

 he that faith what it may. As I stated in my last Reply {p. 

 87) : " Certainly I shall neither presume to ^ judge/ nor to 

 ^ set at naught' a believer, however ^ weak in the faith' " I 

 might esteem him. " This is well said/' observes J. N. B. 

 (p. 161.) " How well it is fulfilled, will appear in the se- 

 quel.'^ I join with my friend in the reference. How far I 

 have been consistent, our mutual readers for themselves must 

 judge. 



The other remaining point to be noticed, is one of graver 

 moment. In an early part of the Discussion (p. 56), J. N. 

 B., in referring to the writers I had cited, remarked : " Of the 

 unguarded language of others he has made a use, I think, they 

 never designed." In part i. of my Reply, I assured him that 

 ^' painful as such a conviction would be, I should certainly be 

 thaukful to him for its frank indication :" and that ^Sf, through 

 prejudice or inadvertence, 1 had given an unfair coloring to 

 authority, I would much rather be corrected, and retract a 

 mistaken application, than continue in error, or labor under 

 an intangible imputation.'' {p. 101.) This ''frank indication'^ 

 of an instance of " undesigned'' use of ''unguarded language," 

 has not been made : but instead, J. N. B. replies : " I do not 

 impute to him any intention of making unfair quotations, or 

 of giving them a wrong coloring. I believe him as incapable of 

 this injustice as my seif. Yet such an appear ance [!] is often 

 inseparable from partial extracts, like those he has made from 

 Calvin and Bunyan. With regard to Calvin, the fact may be 

 verified [?] in a few moments by reading in Yol. I. of his In- 

 stituteSj the single scctiou on the Fcurth Commandment. 



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