An answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation being a letter written out of…An ansvver to Dr. Stillingfleet's Mischief of separation being a letter written out of…

And if it look unlovely in your eyes to see one of much avowed latitude and enlargedness of mind, and capable upon that account of being the more universally serviceable to the Christian Chuch, forsaking that comprehensive interest, so far as to be engulfed into a party upon a private and distinct basis, consider what aspect the same thing would have in yourself. And never make his difference with you in this matter, a reason to yourself of an hard judgment concerning him; who can, you must consider, differ no more from us, than we do from him.

And if it look unlovely in your eyes to see one of much avowed latitude and enlargedness of mind, and capable upon that account of being the more universally serviceable to the Christian Chuch, forsaking that comprehensive interest, so far as to be ingulft into a party upon a private and distinct basis, consider what aspect the same thing would have in yourself. And never make his difference with you in this matter, a reason to yourself of an hard judgment concerning him; who can, you must consider, differ no more from us, than we do from him.

Believe him, in the substance of what he said, to speak-according to his present judgment. Think how gradually ⟨p. 44⟩and insensibly mens judgments alter, and are formed by their converse. That his circumstances have made it necessary to him to converse most for a long time, with those who are fully of that mind which he here discovers, that his own real worth must have drawn into his acquaintance the best and most valuable of them, and such for whom he might not only have a kindness, but a reverence; and who, therefore, must have the more power and influence upon him, to conform his sentiments to their own.

Beleive him, in the substance of what he said, to speak-according to his present judgment. Think how gradually ⟨p. 44⟩and insensibly mens judgments alter, and are formed by their converse. That his circumstances have made it necessary to him to converse most for a long time, with those who are fully of that mind which he here discovers, that his own real worth must have drawn into his acquaintance the best and most valuable of them, and such for whom he might not only have a kindness, but a reverence; and who, therefore, must have the more power and influence upon him, to conform his sentiments to their own.