The Counsels of a Father: In Four Letters of Sir Matthew Hale to His Children; To Which Is Added, the Practical Life of a True Christian, in the Account of the Good Steward at the Great Audit (Classic Reprint)

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He was born on the first of November, 1609, at Alderley, in Gloucestershire. His father had practised as a barrister; but from a tenderness of conscience, which, even if unfounded, can never be too highly respect ed, he retired from the profession of the law he could not reconcile himself to the cus tom of setting up false pleas, which, as he thought, was to tell a lie; and in the legal character as it seemed to him, there were many other things required which he thought incompatible with the duties of a Christian.'

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