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The taking notice that men bestow the names of 'virtue' and 'vice' according to this rule of Reputation is all I have done, or can be laid to my charge to have done, towards the making vice virtue or virtue vice.
But the good man does well, and as becomes his calling, to be watchful in such points, and to take the alarm even at expressions, which, standing alone by themselves, might sound ill and be suspected. 'Tis to this zeal, allowable in his function, that I forgive his citing as he does these words of mine (ch.xxviii.sect.
II): "Even the exhortations of inspired teachers have not feared to appeal to common repute, Philip, iv.
8;" without taking notice of those immediately preceding, which introduce them, and run thus: "Whereby even in the corruption of manners, the true boundaries of the law of nature, which ought to be the rule of virtue and vice, were pretty well preserved.
So that even the exhortations of inspired teachers," &c.
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