in
short, 'tis the Doing or not Doing all the Good that lies in our
Power, that will render us the Heirs of Happiness or Misery.
T. _But if Faith is of great Use to produce a good Life, why
does not Mr._ H. _preach up Faith as well as Morality?
_S._ Perhaps it may be this, that as the good Physician suits
his Physick to the Disease he finds in the Patient, so Mr. _H_. may
possibly think, that though Faith in Christ be properly first
preach'd to Heathens and such as are ignorant of the Gospel, yet
since he knows that we have been baptized in the Name of Christ, and
educated in his Religion, and call'd after his Name, it may not be so
immediately necessary to preach _Faith_ to us who abound in it, as
_Morality_ in which we are evidently deficient: For our late Want of
Charity to each other, our Heart-burnings and Bickerings are
notorious. St. _James_ says, _Where Envying and Strife is, there is
Confusion and every evil Work:_ and where Confusion and every evil
Work is, _Morality_ and Good-will to Men, can, I think, be no
unsuitable Doctrine. But surely _Morality_ can do us no harm. Upon
a Supposition that we all have Faith in Christ already, as I think we
have, where can be the Damage of being exhorted to Good Works? Is
Virtue Heresy; and Universal Benevolence False Doctrine, that any of
us should keep away from Meeting because it is preached there.
T.
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