“What signify your pretensions to knowledge, and the office of teaching others, if you have no regard to your own doctrine?  What are you the better for preaching against theft, if you are a thief yourself?  Or for declaring adultery unlawful, if you live in the practice of it?  Or for representing idolatry abominable, if you are guilty of sacrilege?  What honors or singular favors do you deserve, if, while you glory in the law and your religious privileges, you dishonor God, and discredit his religion, by transgressing his law, and living in open contradiction to your profession?  And this is more than supposition; notorious instances might be produced of the forementioned crimes, whereby the Jews of the present age have brought a reproach upon religion among the Gentiles; as well as those Jews of former times, of whom the Prophet Ezekiel speaks, Ezekiel 36:23 : And I will sanctify my great name, which was Profaned among the Heathen, which ye have Profaned in the midst of them.”