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Excerpt from A View of the Character, Causes, and Ends of the Present War: January, 1815
It is a wide space, Christians, that separates the line of conduct, which would subject the public mi nistry of the church to the opinions of men, from that, which treats with contempt the sentiments of a respectable part of the community. Virtus est me dium, vitiorumql Though I will not be deterred by popular opinion, from prosecuting this subject, I feel it my duty to treat with tenderness, and even respect, the prejudices of valuable men. There fore do I preface a discussion which may in a cer tain sense be termed political, with an exhibition of the authority under which, in this instance, I act. Far be it from me to assert the right of enslaving the minds of my hearers into passive obedience to sacerdotal claims; nor shall 1 insult an audience, which ought to be endowed with christian discern ment, by an effort at brow-beating the most humble of my fellow-men. My apology is found in the words of Amos the prophet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
