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    grin at those who aje , at work . % Q . u know , my friend , this is a very obscure , a- very difficult history , and the writer of it deserves mercy tqyvard his innocent mistakes ; however , he will meet with none , and he neither expects nor asks for any- They say , there are no innocent mistakes . vVhat answer can be made ?

    Last night , along with your ' s , I received from a clergyman of my acquaintance , a perfect master of German literature , a great bulk of German history relative to the German Baptists , and an engagement to visit me in January to assist me in learning German enough to enable me to

    make out the records written in ' that tongue . I have time before me , for I query whether Germany will come up before my third volume . Spanish ancl Italian are nothing , for being only dialects of Latin they are easilv surmountable ; but high and low t ) utch are ruffian-looking rogues . I am half

    afraid of them ; hut my friend , who was here a week last summer , put me in a way so that 1 got through the translating of one paragraph of a German work , which he had with him . If he stays a month next visit , I shall try , but with \ vhat success I know not . I have . got Greece , Rome , Africa , and Navarre written fair for

    the p ress , and almost all thq preliminary essays . Next week my amanuensis begins either Spairj or Italy , if I can get time" to revise eiiher of them . Forr g ive my prolixity . You asked to know the state of the work * Accept this desultory acpount . We retain on our minds with

    singular pleasure a recollection of your excellent discourse to us at Cambridge , and we do ask one another what the General and Particular Baptists differ about ; for , sav we , either ' Mr ! Taylor is a Particular , or we are Generals .

    Accept the best wishes of this family , ancl present them to your house . 1 am , dear Sir , Most affectionately your ' s , ROBT . ROBINSON .

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    &hestert < mf Fed . 21 , 178 { J . ~ ' Ivly pteAR ptn , Taylor , . ^ YQtlT rri ^ y not Jiave ariy concern With ttie subject of this letter for many years , yet I think it a duty I owje you , to give you a hirit of it . A friend of rtiirte ^ having informed me of his in-

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    tj&ntiorj to leave ^ a ^ nsiderable sum for the benefit of our- poor ministers an $ I cljurcbes , and giving me at . the sanae time his particular views , desired noe ^ p advise and arrange the distribution of it . The leading feature in the epnvplexioa of the donor is a love of perfect

    religious liberty . There is , then , a trust created , and a sum , yet , apcumu Tlating , provided , to enable tlje trustees to pay annually five pounds or more , if needed , to twenty , for certain , au < J k may be , if the donor lives a few jears longer , thirty or forty churches . There

    is also a legacy of . £ 400 to the four funds in London ( for 1 named your fund , which my friend had not heard of , and c £ l 00 accordingly was bequeathed you ) , on condition the fundees give security to the executor that they will always pav the interest to one or more Protestant Dissenting ministers

    that shall apply , and profess to believe Jesus 'is the Son of God , and who shall attest by their lives the sincerity of their profession . The first jglOO is to be offered on this condition to the

    Partvcular Baptist fund , and if they refuse , then the j £ lOO bequeathed to them is to be offered to you , along with your own j £ ? 100 , so that ^ 200 is contingent to you ; and if you refuse , then provision is made from one to another , till

    the donation vests where the receivers will not be crippled with human creeds-It is very likely the first fundees will not accept money under this restriction , for one of their printed rules and orders is , that such , and such only shall receive any benefit from this fund , as profess to believe the doctrines of thre ^

    divine persons , eternal and personal election , &c . It should seem there are many worthy , though poor mi-. nisters , who do not believe either the ; one or the other ; but this condition , does not prevent their believing wliat they approve , it only prevents future fundees from putting human creeds ij& the place of . the gospel , and depressing

    the servant of Christ into ' a slave of his 'brother , a servant lilfe . himself and no more . My neighbour . JMr > Parn , of

    Waiden , has favoured ipe with ' tjhe proceedings of the CreneraJ , Assembly he } jf on WecjLnesi | ay , May 14 th , 1788 ^ at Worsti i r > -Street , &c' * I see no human test here , ant ^ U should seem you nojcf really as wellfas pro / essibnally the sufficiency of Scripture .. I intend tci send it aaiong the friends ot freedom in th 4

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    10 Two Letters Jrom the late Rev * JR . J £ o&itfcn , of Cambridge ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1817, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2460/page/10/