Christian Charity Explained: Or the Influence of Religion Upon Temper Stated; In an Exposition of the Thirteenth Chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Christian Charity Explained: Or the Influence of Religion Upon Temper Stated; In an Exposition of the Thirteenth Chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians

The Author often expressed his surprise that no other book had been exclusively devoted to the praise and inculcation of Christian Love, and he derived much pleasure from his having in any degree supplied the deficiency. The subject has always had this disadvantage, that the practice of any one writing upon it must be consistent with his book, or it would, as far as he was known, have little other effect than that of a satire on himself. Those who really knew our Author have ever testified that his life exemplified and enforced his precepts. The Editor recollects the volume being once quoted against him, but it was by a man towards whom he had ever practised forbearance and forgiveness. The Author was much delighted that his work was approved by two readers more than ordinarily qualified to judge of it: one of them well acquainted with life as having sustained a high part in it, and the other as having keenly mused in solitude on the ways and feelings of men; they were the Chief Justice Bushe and the Poet Wordsworth. The latter introduced himself to the Author after a service at Carrs Lane, saying, that for a long time it had been one of his cherished wishes to see and speak to the Author of Christian Charity.

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