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6 < 3 % Say Papers * —No . XXlff .
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THE SAY PAPERS .
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No . XXIV . LETTER FROM THE REV . JOSIAH CHOBLET 1 TO S . SAY .
Norwichy Dec . II , 171 a . Dear Sir , Yours of August 0 th is now before ttie , for which I render most hearty thanks . Had other friends been as kind , this little index : might before now have looked the worLd in the face with a better grace , but your kindness being singular is the more valuable , and hath my singular thanks . I will lay before you rhy alterations , and desire your thoughts upon them as soon as you can . ( A very long list follows which it is needless to trariscrjt ) . ) What arc not mentioned of tours , are accepted with thankfulness and
designed to stand . As to your thoughts about tJgie minor prophets numeration , m my apprehension it is hardly to be com-|> as » edwith any tolerable satisfaction , and if it were ,-would be but an embarrassment to no purpose , for 1 , who ( of younger intellects ) understands the difference between the major and minor prophets ; and then 3 ., wjip reckons them by y - numbers ? Do we in preaching refer our hearers to such a chapter and verse , in the 1 st , or 3 d , or nth prophet ? For my part I know them not by yr . numbers ; and 3 , if I should say in the . 1 st , or " a . d , or 3 d Prophet , who would unjcr & and it but of Js . Jere . Ezek , and not of Tibs . Joel , Amos , and so should misguide them . 4 * And ought not the
same course to be takett as well ^ witR the minor epistles ? But to obviate this difficulty , I shall g ive this for the first direction at the end of the preface , to learn perfectly the names * and qfrder of the books of the Old and New Testament , together with the numbers of the chapters of each book , as they are set down at the back of the title page , and yet t > y experience I fjnd that this is
almost needless , for the young ones who are masters of the book , are so also of these matters ; and , I must own , it is no small pleasure to h ^ tye a parcel of such on a Lord ' s day evejiing conversing these things among themselves for an hour or two , and loth they are to leave it ; examining sometimes by the alphabet and then by the numbers . " Tell me what chapter this is : <* loathed of God are idols all ; " or what are the contents of the 33 d of Ezek . ? & c . " How ready are they in the scripture so far as this intends ! The X ^ ord in crease their knowledge , love and practice .
I am thinking to print it next in limo . or 241110 . for pocket convenience , and ( to render it still less ) to leave out all the addita , besides the epistle and preface , but some are for continuing them . Would he thankful for your sentiments . If * instead of the Poetical Meditation , a short epistle exhortatory
* Mr . ( JJhtMrley published a metrical index of evsry chapter in the Bible , to lead young people into a more intimate acquaintance with its contents , and Mr . Say , oy his request , assisted him in correcting it for a new edition . Mr . C . was senior pastor witfi v Mn P . Finch , of the Presbyterian Society at Norwich . His son RftKtfrQ ^ as minister at Fiiby , near Yarmouth , and Frattfingtaim , in Suffolk .
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Justice * of the Peace , in Cambridge , advised th ^ dissenting ministers in to wn , to qualify as the Act of Toleration required . Dr . E wen's advice was quite friendly , "was $ ent by Mr . Ivatt to me , and was meant to preserve us from trouble on account of the omission ; accord * ingly Air . Darby , the then independant minister , and I went to the Shire Hall at the sessions , on Friday , October ix , X 7 & 5 > and in the presence of tjie Right Honorable the Earl of Hardwicke , chairman , and several other of his Majesty ' s
Justices o £ the Peace , took the oaths of allegiance and supremacy , and also the oaths of abjuration , subscribing our names a * the act directs : of aH this we received certificates from J . Day , the clerk © f the peace ; but , " adds Mr . Robinson , " had I seen things in tb * light 1 notv . do , ( 1774 ) / might have thanked Dr . Eiven Jor bis advice-, hut 'would have run all haxards ratter than have qualified thus . Ulessed be God for an high priest tuho can have compassion on the igt % orant and en them that are out of the ivay *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 632, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1708/page/12/
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