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regard the return of advantages as a reward 

 justly due to their constancy; nor is evidence 

 wanting that many of the clergy of those times 

 countenanced each other in the employment of 

 ingenious methods of removing their scruples : 

 but the integrity of Mr fiay was of that genuine 

 character which declines all parley with tempta- 

 tion. It required not for its development the 

 assertion of some absolute and untamperable 

 falsehood. It was sufficient that the case was 

 doubtful 4 and like the apostle St Paul, he con- 

 sidered that " whatsoever is not of faith is sin/* 

 that whatever is done without a full persuasion 

 of its lawfulness, is, as far as the individual him- 

 self is concerned, unjustifiable and wrong Nor 

 did length of .time, or <tbe approach of old age, or 

 the occurrence of tempting opportunities, or the 

 emulation of the successes and advancement of 

 others, eaase any relaxation of his principles. In 

 reply to a letter, in wMeh Dr Lister had ex- 

 pressed a hope that he would avail himself of the 

 opportunity afforded by the recent elevation of 

 his friend, Dr Wilkins, to the Episcopal office, he 

 writes, " D. Wilkins, in, episcopalem cathedram 

 evectum, et suiipsius, et mei, et pnseeipue ecclesiae 

 causa vehementer gaudeo : me tamen per eum 

 ecclesus restiturum iri 9 stante sententia^ plane est 

 impossible, nee enim unquam adduci me posse 

 puto ut declarationi subscr&am quam lex non ita 

 pridem lata presbyteris aliisque ecclesise ministris 

 injungit, nee tamen tanti est jactura mei qui nulli 

 lore ,u&ui eoclesise foturus essaai utut uod dici 



