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MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF DR . JAMES FOSTER , ( ConcludedfromPage 6 . Vol . il . )
IN lt * 8 , Mr . Foster received from the University of Aberdeen a diploma , conferring on hin the degree of Doctor in Pivinity , accompanied with letters from Dr . Thomas Blackvvell , the Principal , and from Professor David Fordyce . The former wrbte to him thus :- —** I rejoice in an opportunity of shewing my regard for your person and character * . For this end , I cHose that a diploma , creating Mr . Foster Doctor of Divinity ^ should be th ^ first deed and instrument I should do and sign as Principal of this University . It is thfe amiable character to which I have there attempted to do somfe justice . " The latter addresses him in this honourable strain : —* ' We beg you will be so good as to accept of the diploma , as a small mark of the sincere veneration we have for you , and of the sense we entertain of the eminent services y $ u have done the cause of liberty ^ religion , and virtue , by your writings as well as public instructions / ' In another letter , the date , torn off , in answer to a
letter from Mr . Foster , of the 26 th of Novem !? fcr , 1 7 48 , in which he appears to h ^ v £ refused the diplouna , the Professor says : " I am glad that by our dispatch of what ought to have been dispatched long ago , we prevented Mr . Foster ' s declining what so well becomes him to receive and us to confer . I assure you sincerely we rather seek to reflect honour on ourselves than to do you honour , by rightly placing the academical dignity , the principal value of which is the being at once highly merited and entirely unsolicited . Our Society means , by the just compliment inserted in the body of the diploma * , rather to express their esteem of the rnodefct preacher , than ^ to do full justice to
* Baque mentc virum vere egregium Jacobum Foster , dignum Evangelic ministrum , ingenio , doctrina , eloquentl y insignem , virtfujtis , ct ventatis amicum , libertatis tarn civilis qwam Christianae vindicem , vitaqu £ quam scriptis probatissinii * licet clarioreni , insigni honoris tttulo pfomericis decorare volente ^ , S . » . Thcologiae Doctorem creavimus .
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- THE ^ MONTHLY REPOSITORY ¦ ' - OF ' Theology and General Literature .
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No . XIV . ] FEBRUARY . [ Vol . II .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/1/
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