MAY 19
Loyalty in with me an essential branch of religion.
Letter, 25th June, 1777
I take knowledge, you are a young man; and as such, extremely peremptory. So was I, till I was more than thirty years old. So I may well make allowance for you. I was likewise as much bigoted to my own opinions as you can be for your life; that is, I thought them deeply important, and that all contrary opinions were damnable errors. Have patience and you will see farther. In a few years you will find out that neither these are half so necessary to salvation, nor those half so destructive as you now imagine.
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Jealousy and suspiciousness I despise and abhor, as I do hell-fire. And I believe nothing, great or small, without such kind of proof and the nature of the thing allows.
to Samuel Furly, 1762
