Let us be greatly upon our guard, that we do not condemn our brethren because their creed or confessions of faith do not come up to our own. Yea, if we suspect that their sentiments may prove fatal to them, even that consideration should engage us to gentleness rather than severity, as that is the most likely method to bring them to the knowledge of the truth. In a particular manner, parents, and those who have the care of youth, should encourage them in a candid and benevolent temper.

Too many have from their tenderest years been taught to place a part of their religion in the severity with which they censure their brethren who differ from them, and a peccant humor so early wrought in their constitution will not easily be subdued. That very consideration, however, should induce us to educate youth in open and generous sentiments, that so they may be taught to reverence true Christianity wheresoever they see it, and to judge of it by essentials rather than circumstantials.

Let this be our care, and it is more than probable that our children, or those under our tuition, may imbibe such a candid disposition as will be much to their honor and comfort.