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( " I ) do more good to others, there or here} but whether I could do more good to jnyfelf: seeing wherever I can be most hofy myself, there I can most promote ho-Knefs in others. But I can improve myself more at Oxford than at any other place.* " To this I answer, first, it is not dear» self, but the glory of God, and the different degrees of promoting it, which should be our main confidcration and direction in the choice of any course of Jife# Witness St. Paul and Moses.— 1. Suppofc you could be more holy yourself at Oxford, how does it follow, that you could promote holincfs more in others there than elsewhere ? Have you found many inftancesof it, after fo many years hard pains.and labour ? Further : I dare fay, you are more modest and just, than to think there are no holier men than https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139644792.006 Published online by Cambridge University Press