AND NEGLIGENT PRACTICE. 217 virtuous excess, of that unwearied en- deavour to promote the good of others, on which we there animadverted. These are assiduous hearers, but indifferent doers ; very valiant talkers for the truth, but remiss workers. They are more addicted to hear sermons, than to profit by them. Their religion consists more in a sort of spiritual gossipping, than in holi- ness of life. They diligently look out after the faults of others, but are rather lenient to their own. They accuse of being legal, those who act more in the service of Christianity, and dispute less about certain opinions. They overlook essentials, and debate rather fiercely on, at best, doubtful points of doctrine ; and form their judgment of the piety of others, rather from their warmth in con- tKoversy, than in their walking humbly with God. They always exhibit in their con- versation the idiom of .a party, and are apt to suspect the sincerity of those
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