which you recommend to others, in one of your sermons: “Why doth the narrow heart of man pursue with malice or rashness those who presume to differ from him?” Yea, and what is more extraordinary, those who agree with him in all essential points? I. When, in an intricate case, a prudent judge is afraid to pass an unjust sentence, he inquires, as I observed, into the general conduct of the person accused, and by that means frequently finds out the truth which he investigates. As that method may be
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