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lUeW "whi ^ passed between - Mr . £% aod Archbishop Herring are hig hly characteristic and interesting . * ' My Lori ** . 4 < In the universal acclamation of
iov w y ° Grace s promotion to the Pomacy of all England , may the feeble voice of an old man be heard , the short remainder of whose life , will pass off with a pleasure that nothing K > uJd have given , but seeing at the bead of the church , a prelate so affectionately attached to the interests
of truth , virtue and liberty . 1 am , my Lord your grace ' s most dutiful Servant , Thos . Pyle . "
" Dear Sir , Your kind wishes for me give me spirit , and make my heart glad , for in gOOd faith , I have been teazed and terrified with this exaltation ; and thus much Jfwiii venture to say for toysdf , it sha ' nt make me proud , it s ^ nt make me covetous , it sha ' nt make me ungrateful or unmindful of my friends , but it frights me , and I
fear has robbed me of the most precious thing in life , which is liberty , but I will assert as much of it as I can , and not be for ever bound to the trammels of a long tail and ceremony , which my soul ajbhors . ? ' I saw S— Ch—t the other day . I really affect apid honour tjie man , ad wish with all my soul that the
Ctypch of England had hipi , for his wit and learning are certaiply of 4 e first class ; and I regard hina tlie iw >) : e because he reseibbles you and ywrnannei-r You talk pi age and afithaf , but if I may judge from your TOty . Vb . ur eyes are good , your hand
18 itftLn v "' ' nnrl t I c < iii * p * 7 / -kn *» lu * a * "i * $$ $$$ $ pA - ^ ? M , your heart * F ? rai for yourVrlehds * and those ? J 9 « tilings you mention , truth , 3 ^ 4 V ^ ae , and liberty , but that sort of wjMintjhi will cjert ^ iiitfy go to the grave m » you and beyond it . I am , dear Sir ,
Your affectionate Friend , ThdV Cantvar . " * tftofi yton , 17 pee . i i * 7 * y ^ t ^ a ¦
m correspondence between these two ^ aent nien m not clofte Here . It We * . Jf % t some letters ftfterwarda passed ^ fe ^ ^ em , & apfiewa frQJoa . th . e fmg-Svea ^ ' ^>* a * W * &W , % e had * no aooaer received the * great
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Fronj the part which Mr . P . took in the Bangorian C 9 ntroversy , and the terms of particular friendship on which he was known to live with
Bishop Hoa < Jly , we may be very sure that there subsisted between them a frequeat correspondence . Cppies of two of the letters that passed between them are now in the hands of the present writer * He has no reason to suppose that they ever fyave been
pubfarour of your Grace ' s kind and gtwd let * ter than I wrote to the person intimated therein , and deferred my dutiful answer to it no long-er than till I was enabled to acquaint you with his truly filial reply ,
that he should never find greater pleasure than that of complying- with every desire of a fattier , and the honourable friends of that father . —Meantime I am sorry for the ill state of my friend C—st —~/ , which g ives occasion to this affair . 1 loved the man :
my sons honoured him much I thank your grace For your very good remembrance of me and my son . Age , my Lord , confines me at home , when yet good providence blesses me with eyes and faculties , still enabling me to read and even to preacb once a day generally . I read every
thing and make use of the glorious prerogative of private judgment , tbe birthright of Protestants . I pass free sentiment upon Mddltn , and on all his opponents stronger or weaker . So I shall upon what he is going to say on the only piece of that great man of L— that ever gave me pleasure . — -I read Disquisitions , and when
I ' ve done fall to my prayers and wishes , that th « good thing desired may fee put into the hands of t } ie atye , knowing , and impartial , that no church-ti '^ Aer ^ may be suffered to mend some few holes an < f leave .-others open , at which some vital part of the noble Christian scheme may run out
and he lost . But no wish of mine is bq ardent as that your Grace may livp with that excellent [ mind-J-3 of Tilts ' n which is in vou , to preside in , to direct this sjune good thing , and bring it to perfection , ' * Of the residue of this letter we know
nothing : tikis part of it sufficiently » hevvs wh ^ ret ^ out Mr . P . and the Pri mate fitoojl as to the points afterwards agitated in the Confessjpnaly < Jrc . This epistle is suj > po ) Bed about 17
to haye been written ^ 3 « uee years ' before . the death of Mr . P . and toy . r years before that of the Archbishop , than whom it does not appear that a worthier prelate ever occupied the See of Canterbury .
+ There i&a , word wanting hpifi ijn ffyp JWB . JPopy , which prol ) aMy ^/^ fnin ^ pjr mir it $ aJIufHtt ^ , it is su pefp ^ ! f-ftnP " rid of the Atbanasian Creed , &c .
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Mmoirqftjke jfev- T ? l * wn # s Pyl ? , Itf . A . 267
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/3/
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