A. What heights? The loving God with all our heart? I believe, this is the most exalted height in man or angel. But I have not heard, that any have been led into a disregard of religion, through despair of attaining this.
Q. 3. Whether others who have imbibed these notions, may not be led by them, into a disregard and disesteem, of the common duties and offices of life?
A. My notions are, “True religion is the loving God with all our heart, and our neighbour as ourselves; and in that love abstaining from all evil, and doing all possible good to all men.” Now, it is not possible in the nature of things, that any should be led by these notions, into either a disregard or disesteem of the common duties and offices of life.
Q. 4. But may they not be led by them into such a degree at least, of disregard for the common duties of life, as is inconsistent with that attention to them, and diligence in them, which Providence has made necessary?
A. No. Quite the reverse. They lead men to discharge all those duties with the strictest diligence and closest attention.
Q. 5. Does not christianity require this attention and diligence in all stations and in all conditions?
A. Yes.
Q. 6. Does it not declare, that the performance even of the lowest offices of life, as unto God, is truly a serving of Christ? and will not fail of its reward in the next world?
A. It does. But whom are you confuting? Not me. For this is the doctrine I preach continually.
3. Query the second. “Whether the enemy of christianity may not find his account, in carrying christianity, which was designed for a rule to all stations and all conditions, to such heights as make it fairly practicable by a very few, in comparison, or rather by none?”