Excerpt from On Liberality in Religion: Taken From the Christian's Magazine, Edited by the Rev. Dr. Mason, of New-York, Together With "an Inquiry Into the Scripture Meaning of Charity," Extracted From the Writings of the Rev. Dr. Witherspoon Liberaligy in Religion. 3 course is so adve1se to reflection; dissent from the circling opinion is, for the most part, so ungraciously received, a fling, whether in jest or earnest, is so conven ient a substitute for fact; and a popu lar epithet, without expense either of thought or knowledge, 15 so expeditious a mode of determining controversies, which otherwise would be of Sufi debate, that the judgment is surprised through the imagination, and the mind 18 hurried into its decisions without firmness to resist, or leisure to pause. He who has access to that sort of company, which wears the reputation of intelligence, and does not recollect to have seen this course of things, has made a bad use of his eyes or his memory. How roughly ih dividuals, communities, and even truth itself 18 often handled by such summary sentences, every writer on logic or ethics accounts it his duty to show. The design of the followingobservations is not so much to dwell on the general evil of th practice, as, onthe one side torcpel an op probrium, and, on the other, to siftaclaim, which it has been employed to sanction From the present state of society, we look back on the intolerance of former4 Liberality in Religion. 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.