"A friend called on me when I was ill, to settle some business. My head was too much confused by my indisposition to understand fully what he said, but I had such unlimited confidence in him, that I did whatever he bid me, in the fullest assurance that it was right. How simply I can trust in man, and how little in God! How unreasonable is a pure act of faith in one like ourselves, if we cannot repose the same faith in God."
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Richard Cecil (clergyman)
Richard Cecil (8 November 1748 – 15 August 1810) was a leading Evangelical Anglican clergyman of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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