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Excerpt from The Works of the Rev. John Witherspoon, Vol. 3 of 3: Late President of the College, at Princeton New Jersey, to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Author's Life, in a Sermon Occasioned by His Death, by the Rev. Dr. John Rodgers of New York
Let me begin by fettling precifely the fubjea: of the inqui ry. It will, 01 at leal't ought to be, acknowledged, that with many the current meaning of the word cbarzly is, to have a fav o1abl e opin1ou of the fentiments of others, who aie fuppoled to differ from us that 18 to fay (for it is not very ealy to define it clearly), to think, that they are innocently millaken 111 judgment, and that they have as honefily inquired after truth as ourfelves; and therefore to conclude, that as perfons truly fincere, and acting accord ing to their light, they {hall meet with the final acceptance of God. That this is the meaning with many, if it lhould be denied, I prove from the following ci1 cumftance, that charity in fentiment, or charity in general (except when it is taken m a limited fenfe, as fignifying bounty to the pom) IS always applied to thofe who differ from us, and never to thofe who agree with us; and indeed, it is about the difference that it is fuppofed to be exercifed.
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