this heavenly unction than a talkative reasoning temper that is always catching at every opportunity of hearing or telling some religious matters.  Stop your ears and shut your eyes to all religious tales . . .  I would no more bring a false charge against a deist than I would bear false witness against an apostle.  And if I knew how to do the deists more justice in debate I would gladly do it . . .  And as the gospel requires me to be as glad to see piety, equity, strict sobriety, and extensive charity in a Jew or a Gentile as in a Christian; as it obliges me to look with pleasure upon their virtues, and to be thankful to God that such persons have so much of true and sound Christianity in them; so it cannot be an unchristian spirit to be as glad to see truths in one party of Christians as in another, and to look with pleasure upon any good doctrines that are held by any sect of Christian people, and to be thankful to God that they have so much of the genuine saving truths of the gospel among them . . .  Selfishness and partiality are very inhuman and base qualities even in the things of this world, but in the doctrines of religion they are of a far baser nature.  In the present divided state of the Church, truth itself is torn and divided asunder; and, therefore, he is the only true Catholic who has more of truth and less of error than is hedged in by any divided part.  To see this will enable us to live in a divided part unhurt by its division, and keep us in a true liberty and fitness to be edified and assisted by all the good that we hear or see in any other part of the Church.  And thus, uniting in heart and spirit with all that is holy and good in all Churches, we enter into the true communion of saints, and become real members of the Holy Catholic Church, though we are confined to the outward worship of only one particular part of it.  And thus we will like no truth the less because Ignatius Loyola or John Bunyan were very jealous for it, nor have the less aversion to any error because Dr. Trapp or George Fox had brought it forth.”  If Wildhead would take a winter of William Law, it would sweeten his temper, and civilise his manners, and renew his heart.

3.  Inconsiderate, again, is the shallow creature he is, and does the endless mischief that he does, largely for lack of imagination.  He never thinks—­neither before he speaks nor after he has spoken.  He never put himself in another man’s place all his days.  He is incapable of doing that.  He has neither the head nor the heart to do that.  He never once said, How would I like that said about me? or, How would I like that done to me? or, How would that look and taste and feel to me if I were in So-and-so’s place?  It needs genius to change places with other men; it needs a grace beyond all genius; and this poor headless and heartless creature does not know what genius is.  It needs imagination, the noblest gift of the mind, and it needs love, the noblest grace of the heart, to consider