Let us therefore follow after the things which ROM. xiv. 19. GAL. v. 6. LONDON: Printed for J. BUCKLAND, Paternoster-Row; M DCC LXXXIV. My dear friend and brother, OU have more than once You gently called upon me for the reasons which induced me to exercise my miniftry as a. Clergyman of the Church of England, rather than among the Diffenters, B Diffenters, where my first religious connections were formed, and with many of whom I ftill maintain a cordial friendship. Hitherto have ufually waved the fubject, and contented myfelf with affuring you in general terms, that as the preference 1 gave to the establishment was the refult of ferious, and, I truft, impartial enquiry; fo I had never feen reafon to repent of it, no not for a minute, fince the day of my ordination. I now purpose to give you a more particular anfwer, And as you are not the only perfon who have expreffed a friendly furprize at my choice, I fhall com municate my reafons from the prefs, prefs, that all my friends who have been at a lofs to account for my conduct may have fuch fatiffaction as it is in my power to give them. I fhall, however, keep you particularly in my eye while I write, that a just sense of the candor and affection with which you have always treated me, may regulate my pen, and preferve me (if poffible) from that harsh and angry fpirit, into which writers upon controverfial points, are too often betrayed. I confefs that as in this business my conscience is clear in the fight of Him to whom alone I am properly accountable; I could with ftill to continue filent, and fubmit B 2 to |