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TH& CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LOCKE AND LIMBORCH, TRANSLATED, WV r WHPfcn' lPfY4&lPf\"D tC* A F KTfhT'lPC? ; . W1A tl Ml*3 M%*Ml\sXlJU i\ %JMXStjo.
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lltiiiy ** even years after hisconnexion with them had ceased . About the time of hfa leaving Congletoo , he appears to have commenced an intimate friendship and correspondence with Mr * Turner of Wakefield * which continued with mutual pleasure and satisfaction till the decease of
that excellent and venerable minister * In April , l ? 649 Mr . Astley received &B unanimou s * invitation from the congregation assembling at Mill-Hill Chapel 5 in Leeds , to become their pastor , in the room of the Rev »¦* > . , deceased . But a distrust
< of his own qualifications for the faithful discharge of so considerable a trust * together with other considerations * induced him to decline " a most sincere and hearty invitation . " His refusal gave great concert * to several of the leading members of the
congregation , who had been particularly solicitous in the affair , from a conviction of his ability to fill the pastoral office among them * with honour to himself and with great aod acceptable usefulness to society tn general . On the 3 rd October * 1772 , he received &a ( unanimous invitation from the
congregation at Whitehaven to settle t-hfre , hi consequence of the removal of the Rev . Radcliffe Scholefield , who had been sometime cb pastor with Mri Astlev ' s Father at Whitehaven , and after whose death had continued
Th& Correspondence Between Locke And Limborch, Translated, Wv R Whpfcn' Lpfy4&Lpf\"D Tc* A F Ktfht'lpc? ; . W1a Tl Ml*3 M%*Ml\Sxlju I\ %Jmxstjo.
TH& CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LOCKE AND LIMBORCH , TRANSLATED , WV WHPfcn' lPfY 4 &lPf \ "D tC * A F KTfhT'lPC ? ; . W 1 A tl Ml * 3 M % * Ml \ sXlJU i \ % JMXStjo .
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Tjhe £ S ® rre $ pondence between JLoeke and himborclh 1685—1704 . ( Continued from p . 14 . ) No . S . Joh % Locke to Philip a lAmborch . Cleve , 6 Oct . UJ 85 . . Mt MOST E 8 TEEMED FRIENOp
If . 'I scarcely replied to your two I very friendly letters I beseech you to blame the hasty departure of the packet . Do oot esteem me so absorbed in my own concerns ^ or ho
indifiereiit to your friendships and the charms of ywir tnstractive corresppon-< &ettces an to have said every thing about my affairs , and nothing respect mg your agreeable Jetters * unless I
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sole minister tilt the period now alluded to , when he accepted an invitation to Birmingham . Many consi ^ derations strongly inclined Mr . Astley to accede to the wishes of the congregation at Whitehaven . His attache me lit to Preston had been considerably weakened by several circumstances ;
particularly may be noticed the death of his mother , in the preceding year * for whom he had the greatest aflfeo tion and filial reverence , and that ctf t . ady Hogbton , ( great aunt of the present Sir Henry Philip Hogbton of Walton Hall , near Prestoi ^) by whose death be lost a truly valuable friend . In addition to these
inducements to quit Preston , he felt a strong predilection for bis native place , and would have felt no small satisfaction could a removal to Whitehaven have been rendered eligible in every re * spect But prudential motives in * duced him to decline this invitation .
In December following he was invited to preach at Chesterfield , in Derby * shire . This invitation he accepted * and it being succeeded by an imam * tnous request on the part of the
congregation to become their pastor , io consequence of the resignation of the Rev . James Hay wood , he finally set * tied in that town in April , 17 f 8 . XV * x * ••• ' li a ( To be continued . )
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had been anxious to have the earliest notice of the Earl of Pembroke ' s arrival . But I can now , my excellent friend * gratify my inclination , and return to you and to your letters ; in the firrt
place , blaming your friendship for speaking in such extravagant terms of my deserts , and at the same time * so lightly of the great benefits by which you have obliged me . I confess these are sometimes the errors of
sincere and distinguished friendship ; I rather complain of them now , that ? on the other hand , ypu may indulge me in a similar feeling , and believe that I only follow the dictates of friend-
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The Cmrespendemee Between Locke and Limbers ^ itamlatedo $ 5
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/5/
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