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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1772. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... pursuit; let not our souls exhale in the vapour, but let us rather pour them out in prayers for our brethren, than in accufation of them: For tho' both the one and the other will return into our own bosoms, yet God knows to far disserent purposes, even as dissering as those with which we utter them. The charity of the. one, like kindly exhalations, will descend in showers of blessings 5 but the rigour and asperity of the other,. in a severe. doom upon ourselves: for the apostle will tell us, '.'.he.shall have Judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy." THOUGH censure has been considered as a branch of detraction ; yet it is in many things dissering from it, though very little jn all.. '. . 'It is one of the worst characters a min or wpmait can have, to be maliciously curious in examining the! actions of others, only to censure them; nothing caa escape the quickness of. their jealous eye, nor the. mat lice of their envenomed.tongue: They are the common enemy to mankind and civil society. Slander is quiteopposite to politeness: If gentlemen and ladies'reflected' upon. the ofsence all reasonable people tafce'atit, they would not act so.vile a part: Base slattcrerV.may applaud their Wit, and animate them iri scar/slAIiaihg others ^-.but'the suffrage of such wretches dbes not hinder th%lr being despised by persons of ho., riour1. There is3a great deal of care and skill required ti^vards'tHe1 good management of censuro. To dis1 V
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