wiſhed him to have been without; tho’ as thoſe ſeemed greatly over-ballanced by his good Qualities, they did not incline Mr. Allworthy to part with him; nor would they indeed have juſtified ſuch a Proceeding: For the Reader is greatly miſtaken, if he conceives that Thwackum appeared to Mr. Allworthy in the ſame Light as he doth to him in this Hiſtory; and he is as much deceived, if he imagines, that the moſt intimate Acquaintance which he himſelf could have had with that Divine, would have informed him of thoſe Things which we, from our Inſpiration, are enabled to open and diſcover. Of Readers who from ſuch Conceits as theſe, condemn the Wiſdom or Penetration of Mr. Allworthy, I ſhall not ſcruple to ſay, that they make a very bad and ungrateful Uſe of that Knowledge which we have communicated to them.
Theſe apparent Errors in the Doctrine of Thwackum, ſerved greatly to palliate the contrary Errors in that of Square, which our good Man no leſs ſaw and condemned. He thought indeed that the different Exuberancies of theſe Gentlemen, would correct their different Imperfections; and that from both, eſpecially with his Aſſiſtance, the two Lads would derive ſufficient Precepts of true Re-ligion
