To exercise hope, faith, trust in him, seemed then an impiety.

I did not mean to impute impiety to Unitarians; still I distinctly believed that English Unitarianism could never afford me a half hour's resting-place.
Nevertheless, from contact with this excellent person I learned how much tenderness of spirit a Unitarian may have; and it pleasantly enlarged my charity, although I continued to feel much repugnance for his doctrine, and was anxious and constrained in the presence of Unitarians.

From the same collision with him, I gained a fresh insight into a part of my own mind.

I had always regarded the Gospels (at least the three first) to be to the Epistles nearly as Law to Gospel; that is, the three gospels dealt chiefly in _precept_, the epistles in _motives_ which act on the affections.

This did not appear to me dishonourable to the teaching of Christ; for I supposed it to be a pre-determined development.