But oh, Christendom! what dost thou believe and teach?
The heathen cry out to thee,--Physician, heal thyself.
[Footnote 1: I afterwards learned that some of those gentlemen esteemed boldness of thought "a lust of the mind," and as such, an immorality.

This enables them to persuade themselves that they do not reject a "heretic" for a matter of _opinion_, but for that which they have a right to call "_immoral_".

What immorality was imputed to me, I was not distinctly informed.] [Footnote 2: I really thought it needless to quote proof that but _few_ will be saved, Matth.vii.14.I know there is a class of Christians who believe in Universal salvation, and there are others who disbelieve eternal torment.

They must not be angry with me for refuting the doctrine of other Christians, which they hold to be false.] [Footnote 3: In this (second) edition, I have added an entire chapter expressly on the subject.] [Footnote 4: The same may probably be said of all the apostles, and their whole generation.

If they had looked on the life of Jesus with the same tender and human affection as modern Unitarians and pious Romanists do, the church would have swarmed with _holy coats_ and other relics in the very first age.