“The Doctor, I own, is respected by most of the clergy; and, I
will add, by most of the laity too; but what then? I could name
in turn several rigid Dissenters in the _highest credit and
intimacy_ with _some_ of our clergy; and, if it be wrong (which
is indeed a new doctrine to me) for the clergy to respect and
converse with persons of different opinions in religion, I
think the character of a clergyman of the Church of England in
much less danger from his acquaintance with a non-juring bishop
than with a Calvinistical Dissenter.”