FEBRUARY 12 You have need continually to be as a little child, simply looking up for whatever you want.
Letter, 21st December, 1776
I think it great pity that the few clergymen in England who preach the three grand Scriptural doctrines – Original Sin, Justification by Faith, and Holiness consequent thereon – should have any jealousies or misunderstandings between them. What advantage must this give to the common enemy! What a hindrance it is to the great work wherein they are all engaged! How desirable is it that there should be the most open, avowed intercourse between them! …
For many years I have been labouring after this – labouring to unite, not scatter, the messengers of God.
to the Rev. George Downing, 1761
