Nor, save by his fair life, to charge so strong replied. }
Still, though he bade them not on aught rely }
That was their own, but all their worth deny, }
They call’d his pure advice his cold morality; 10}
And though he felt that earnestness and zeal,
That made some portion of his hearers feel,
Nay, though he loved the minds of men to lead
To the great points that form the Christian’s creed,
Still he offended; for he would discuss
Points that to him seem’d requisite for us,