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felf at Oxford, how does it follow, that

felf at Oxford, how does it follow, that

( " I ) do more good to others, there or here} but whether I could do more good to jnyfelf: feeing wherever I can be moft hofy myfelf, there I can moft promote ho-Knefs in others. But I can improve myfelf more at Oxford than at any other place.* " To this I anfwer, firft, it is not dear» felf, but the glory of God, and the different degrees of promoting it, which fhould be our main confidcration and direction in the choice of any courfe of Jife# Witnefs St. Paul and Mofes.— 1. Suppofc you could be more holy yourfelf at Oxford, how does it follow, that you couldpromote holincfs more in others there than elfewhere ? Have you found many inftancesof it, after fo many years hard pains.and labour ? Further : I dare fay, you are more modeft and juft, than to think there are no holier men than https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139644792.006 Published online by Cambridge University Press

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