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‘Our chief danger in the present age seems to be in erring on the side of candor and complaisance, and not dealing with mankind with sufficient plainness and fidelity. Many of my people have died, with whom my conscience has afterwards accused me of not dealing so plainly as I should.’—Orton’s Letters to Dissenting Ministers, i. 59, 60. Melius est cum severitate diligere, quam cum lenitate decipere. Augustine. – It is better to love with severity, than to deceive with gentleness.