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    quirics to the Popish controversy , or be an implicit believer in the dogmas of any church . He feared no examination ; ke evaded no question . In his eye nothing but truth was sacred . There is

    extant a letter of his , without a date , addres&ed to a friend who had demanded his judgment upon the Arian hypothesis ; concerning which he replies that it is * either a truth or at least no

    damnable heresy : * " And another letter is happily preserved , which may be pronounced one of the finest compositions of this great master both of reason and of

    language , one of the most noble protests against spiritual tyranny which wias ever penned , and one of the most glowing pictures of the triunvtfh of a virtuous mind

    which was ever exhibited . That Chillingwortb did not to the end qf life maintain the spirit of this admirable letter does not abate its excellence . It was occasioned by an offer of preferment in the church

    of England , made to him by some of his friends , in the year 1635 —the preferment he would have gladly accepted , but the condition of acceptance ( subscription to the 39 articles ) he could

    not comply with ; he therefore wrote the following ' letter from Tew , the seat of his friend Lord Falkland , Sept . 21 , 1635 , to the right worshipfull and his much honoured friend Dr . Sheldo n * . Ci Good Dr . Sheldon ,

    ** I do here send you news , as unto my best friend , of a great and bappy victory winch at length with extream difiicultie I have scarcely obtained over the onely

    • Dcs IVIaizeaux , p % 55 , in whom the whole letter may be found .

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    , , ¦ , I F - ¦ \ » ' . ., ;*¦¦¦¦¦ - ¦ enemie th ^ t can hurt me , that -ismy selfe . . - . . . ^ *

    u , so it is , that though I am in debt to your selfp and otiws of my friends above tweniy < pounds more than I know how to * pay ; though I am in want of many conveniences ; though in great

    ganger of falling into a chronicall infirmitie of my body ; though in another thing , which you perhaps guesse at what it is , but I will not tell you which wquld make , m ^ more joyful of preferment thea all these Cif ( I I could come hortestlvbv these if could come hortestly by

    ii ) ; though money cbmes to $ &c froni my father ^ pu rse hke blood from his veins ,. qrtroni his heart ; though I am very sensible that , I have been too Ipng a lready &n tti )« profitable bur 4 ea to my Lord , fcifcci

    must not . still continue so ; though my refusing preferment , may perhaps ( which fear , . I assure y ^ t | , does much ajBSict n ^ e ) be i njii rioijis to my friends and intimate acquaintance , and prejudicial to

    them in the way of iheits : though them in the way of theits ; though conscience of my own good intention and desire , suggests unto me many flattering hopes of great possibilitie of doing God and , his

    church service , if I ha r dthat preferment which I may fairly hope for ; though I may justly fear * thai by refusing those preferments which I sought for , I shall gain

    the reputation of woakntsse apd levity , and incur their displeasure , whose good opinion of me , next to God ' favour , arid niy own gpotf opinion of my selfe r I dp > esteem and desire ab ^ veall things ; though

    all these and many other terrtQtfes visufjrm ' oe baU e represented themselves to my imagination in the most hideous manner that may be ; yet 1 am at length firmly and u * u inoveably resolved , if I can bave

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    ¦ 8 Brief Memoir of Mr . Chillingworth . ¦ . - - ' 1 = 0 -,.-. ; ¦

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/8/