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his particular religious principles ; perhaps the 

 state of the times was unfavourable to any marked 

 expression of these. It is not the least evil 

 resulting from such a political condition as ex- 

 isted during the Commonwealth and subsequent 

 Restoration, that the wise and good are often 

 compelled by it to decline the well-timed and 

 moderate avowal of the distinguishing doctrines 

 of Christianity, in order to avoid the imputation 

 of indifference from the extravagant zealot on the 

 one hand, and the charge of religious hypocrisy 

 from the profane, rendered still more profane by 

 the spirit of revulsion on the other. 



But enough is still said of him to justify the 

 most pleasing conclusions. His habits of indus- 

 try, temperance, and purity his enlightened 

 estimate of the advantages of birth, wealth, and 

 intellectual ability, and of the true nature of per- 

 sonal worthiness his abhorrence of idleness, on 

 the ground of its being the parent of almost every 

 vice his eminent virtue and goodness his re- 

 markable humility, justice, and integrity his 

 disinterested constancy to his friends his com- 

 prehensive " charity toward all good men, to the 

 exclusion, however, of such opinions as are incon- 

 sistent with true goodness" his fear and reverence 

 of the Deity, deep sense of his goodness, and 

 thankfulness for the same sincere piety in all 

 his actions toward him, and great abhorrency of 

 whatever tended to his dishonour his patience 

 and submission, which he also evinced so con- 

 spicuously on his deathbed,. all which qualities 



