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Excerpt from A Defence of the Wesleyan Theological Institution: And of the Proceedings of the Institution-Committee and the Conference Relative Thereto, in Reply to the "Remarks" Of Dr. Warren
The next complaint is in a holder strain, and has relation to a matter much more palpable. It is to this effect, that, in the course of a Committee Meeting (held on Thursday July 17th), at which several preachers and lay-gentlemen were present, Mr. Bunting advisedly denounced his opposition as the most unprinczpled which he ever And, taking that expression in the form and meaning in which the Doctor has reported it, and apart from the qualification which will presently appear, it must be admitted that the charge which it is represented as involving, was a severe one; especially, if the individual, who is the object of it, must have credit for the meekness and forbearance which are implied in the assurance given to his readers, tha no merely harmless personalities, uttered in the heat of debate, shall call forth one word of replication, any more than they did at the moment of provocation. But ere, the reader yields himself to the impression of that sympathetic resentment, which a charge so grave, and apparently so unprovoked, is calculated to excite, let him take into his account the important fact, that the Doctor himself had, long before that time.
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