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to live (provided he was fihcere in his profeffion, arid 

 therefore a warm' friend to truth and virtue) among 

 that chriftian party, whole principles, dogmas and 

 Conftitutions came the neareft to the fundamental doc- 

 trines and difpoiltions of Chrift, and was the rrioft free 

 from all the above-mentioned fpurious additions and 

 drofs. What reafonable ground now could thefe 

 chriftians have for excluding him from their outward 

 communion ? Is it not their duty, if they think 

 that the faith he is ftill deficient in, is neccflary to his 

 everlafting welfare, not to deny him the opportunities 

 for obtaining it ? May he not, perhaps, by time, by 

 affectionate admonition, and by good example, re- 

 ceive from them what he ftill wants in all particulars 

 to believe as they do ? — if indeed it appears to them 

 a matter of fuch great importance, that every man 

 fhould in all refpeSs believe as they do ? But now if 

 the drift mould happen to have been born among 

 them; if he were born to the civil rights and immuni- 

 ties of the city wherein at that time their fymbol of 

 faith was the predominant one": with what femblance 

 of equity can he be faid to forfeit his birthright, 

 merely becaufe it is as phyfitally imppffible for his 

 tmderftanding to hold certain portions for true, as it 

 is impoffibie for him to fly in the air, or to live in 

 fire ?- — or, is it not fhameful, if, from no other caufe, 

 they put nil m to the alternative either of being a liar 

 and a hypocrite, or fend him to feek his bread in fo- 

 reign climes, an exile from his country ? 



The confequence of my reflections having brought 

 me to this point, I cannot help giving vent to the hearty 

 difguft I feel at the abufe that is made of the word to- 

 leration 



