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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATI0H&
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ORIGINAL LETTER OF DIU DODDRIDGE ^ Si To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , The short letter inclosed for your Miscellany will afford a curious specimen of the religious taste of a former ag 6 . Such a taste let us not too severely censure , since a respectable scholar , even in our own times , I mean Mr . Good ^ can allow himself to contend for a spiritual sense of the Song of . Solotnon .
This letter came into my possession , among the papers of a deceased near relation , and is undoubtedly original , being iri the writer ' s very peculiar autography . If your readers refer to the passage Cant . ii . 14 . they will not be surprised that another text should be desired , especially for a funeral sermon . They will rather discover the complaisance , in which Dr . Doddridge was supposed sometimes to exceed , when he speaks of that chosen by his correspondent as capable of so good an improvement / ' I am , Sir , your ' s , Pontalc , Sept . \ , 1806 . N , X . T . Dr . Doddridge to Mr . William Glover . Dear Sir , Northampton ^ Sept . \ i > , 174-2 . I h ^ ve considered of the text you mentioned , Cant , ii . 14 ,
and find it capable of so good an improvement , that I shall be very ready to oblige you with a sermon upon it ; but I am fearful lest , considering how agreeable a woman Mrs . Gl 6 ver was , some light minds , always ready to abuse Solomon ' s Song , should , at first hearing , interpret it with some such reference
to her , as neither you nor I could wish , and perhaps a little reflecting on both . This is the opinion of a prudent friend , as well as mv own ; on which account I cannot but desire that you would please to choose another text , lest prqphane mirth should be excited on an occasion of so much solemnity and distress .
I Am , dear Sir , your very affectipnate friend , and sympathising humble servant , P . Doddridge , I should be glad pf vour speedy answer .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1806, page 568, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1730/page/8/
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