218 ON HIGH PROFESSION whose higher breeding, and more correct habits, discover a better taste. Deli- cacy, with them, is want of zeal; prudent reserve, want of earnestness ; sentiments of piety, conveyed in other words than are found in their vocabulary, are sus- pected of error. They make no allow- ance for the difference of education, habits, and society ; all must have one standard of language, and that standard is their own: Even if, on some points, you hold nearly the same sentiments, it will not save your credit ; if you do not express them in the same phrases, you are in danger of having your principles sus. Tected. By your proficiency or declen- sion in this dialect, and not by the greater or less devotedness of your heart, and the increasing or diminishing consis- tency. in your practice, they take the gauge of your religion, and determine the esi nand fall of your spiritual thermometer, The language of these technical Chris- tians indisposes persons of. refinement, 17
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