cbnfidered in themfelves, to be proper
C »• ) at Oxford: and yet it is poffible they may not have promoted holinefe more than you have done ; as I doubt) not, but you might have done it much more, had you taken the right method; for there is a particular turn of mind for thefe matters; great prudence as well as fervour.
3. I cannot allow aufterity or faftingV cbnfidered in themfelves, to be proper acts of holinefs; nor am I for a folitary life. God made us for a focial life. We mull not bury our talent. We are to let our light fliine before men; and that, not barely through the chinks of a bumcl, for fear the wind mould blow it out.
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