Now, I thought what I have said, was as unexceptionable, as unfit to be condemned by a professor of Christian theology, as if I had only recommended the loving of God with all our heart and soul, and mind and strength; and that if any clergyman disliked it, he would be forced to keep his dislike to himself; but the Doctor is very open in his indignation at it; the same answer, he says, is to be given here, as before, _viz._ _that it is false doctrine, tending to the scandal and reproach_ of the Christian religion. Our blessed Lord, when he sent the first preachers of the gospel into the world, said unto them, _As my Father hath sent me, so send I you――go ye and teach all nations_――and _lo I am with you to the end of the world_. Now let it be supposed, that these first preachers of the gospel fully believed, that from the time of their appointment to this high office, they _were to consider themselves merely as the messengers of God, sent into the world solely on his errand_, and that _it was happiness enough for them to be called to that business_, for which the Son of God was _born into the world_; if they had this belief, what follows? Why, according to the Doctor, that they set out from the very first in one of the greatest errors, had mistaken the nature and intent of their mission, and had gone into the world upon a principle that _was false_ in itself, and _scandalous_ and _reproachful_ to the Christian religion. But if this belief is not to be condemned in the first clergy, I desire to know why those who claim their succession from the first, and expect the presence of Christ in and with their ministry, are not to be called upon to be of the same spirit and belief with them, or how can it be a scandal to the gospel, for the modern clergy to be as wholly devoted to the service of God, as the apostles were. The Doctor sets it out as an extraordinary presumption in _such a man_ as I am, to pretend to give advice to young divines, when it is so sufficiently done already by the _offices of our church, the charges, instructions and exhortations of our bishops at their visitation, and so many excellent ordination and visitation sermons_, p. 87. Now, granting the plenty and excellency of all these, yet I have some hope, my presumption may be found to be only like that of the _poor widow_, who after so many rich oblations of great people, presumed to put her little mite into the treasury. And if it be true, that the things suggested by me, are only such as have been already set forth by so many great bishops and excellent preachers, how will the Doctor come off for condemning it, as false doctrine, scandalous, and reproachful to the Christian religion?