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pray God, to give you both a serious sense of 

 virtue, and honour, and Christianity. And then 

 I am sure you will either have no differences, 

 or they w^ill be such, as nobody but yourselves 

 will know of. 



" Your's, &c. 



** Jo. Ebor." 



He could not have treated his own son in the 

 like circumstances with greater affection or 

 more sensible concern. But this was his way 

 with all, while there were any hopes either of 

 their being wrongfully charged, or their being 

 reclaimed and brought to amend upon persua- 

 sion. But if he was fully persuaded of the 

 truth of the allegations against any clergyman, 

 or found that his first admonitions had not their 

 due effect, then he raised his style, and rebuked 

 with more authority, intermixing some threat- 

 enings. 



The two following letters are a specimen of 

 his manner in doing this. 



" Sir, 

 ** I am very sorry that I must write to you 

 upon such an occasion as I now do. When 



I was in my visitation at , the other 



day, I there received great complaints against 

 you for your gross and scandalous neglect of 



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