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iise , * of which you require from me some account , to confess the truth , I should have informed you sooner , but
I . hoped before this time to have been M Amsterdam , and have there enjoyed the pleasant intercourse of my friends , especially of yourself , without which even . these days of spring would cot pas 6 agreeably .
Farewell , most excellent friend , and regard me , as you have obliged me to be , Your most devoted , J . LOCKE .
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No . 7 . John Locke to Philip A Limborch . Rotterdam , Sept . 11 , 1687-IS it not a sufficient triumph for your talents to have conquered the ? few , f unless , by means of the same work , you entirely spbdue one most attached to you among Christians ?
You assail us , I own , with different weapons j him you attack with arguments , me you hold captive with benefits . From such weapons neither of us can escape . I certainly must acknowledge myself bound to you for ever . For what can I repay to one who is not satisfied with heaping be * nefits on me unless he farther
endeavour to make me appear worthy of them ; who detracts from his own reputation to set off mine 3 aud wishes the MSS , of his relation . See Nouv . Diet . Hist . IV . 115 . * . The Essay . See note (*) p . 8 ( 3 . -f Don Balthasar Orcbio , a Spanish Jew , whose parents outwardly professed themselves Roman Catholics . The sou was a physician at Seville . Accused of Judaism , he suffered horribly in the Inquisition - After three years ^ being * discharged , lie became Professor of Medicine at
Toulouse , still outwardly adhering * to the popish religion . He , at length , removed to Amsterdam , where he was circumcised , took the name of Isaac , and professed Judaism . Limborch ba < 5 first a personal conference with the Jew , who afterwards addressed to him three papers 011 the subject of the Christian religion . These , with
his own replies , Limborch published , in 1687 , under this title , Arnica Collatio de Veritate Iteligionis Christiana , cunt , erudito Judao . A Roman Catholic bi 6 grapher praises this piece as excellent morceau pour cette partie de laThdologie . Nov . Diet . Hist . IV . 115 . Orobio died this same year . &ee Letter No . % . infra *
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tne to partakfe of praises to which' I have 110 claim ? You , I confess * by your friendly courtesy , can more easily lead me at your will , than the other with all his metaphysics . Yet expect not ever so far to persuade
tne , that I should acknowledge your promptitude in sending me the first copy , to be an attention by any means my due . I put the whole , both the gift and your speed in bestowing it , to the account of your friendship and good-will . You , perhaps , such is your
kindness , thought it right to present him with the work first of all , whom you knew , frotn a taste he had of it , to be vefy anxiously expecting this Dissertation , and to seek a repetition of his pleasure by studying it afresh .
I readily acknowledge the justice of this feeling > nor can you present this volume to any one by whom it has been equally desired , or to whom it can be more acceptable . No one shall see it , for three days and more , as you directed .
I highly approve your courtesy , to the Jew , though , I suspect , when he reads it , he will not so much credit the good designed for himself , as rejoice that his book has fallen into such hands as yours . Of the notice at the foot of your letter , to say much
in few words , I grieve that you should have been , for three days , so near and yet too distant for an interview . But I ought to bear it patiently , satisfied that I have him for my friend , whom so many esteem
I pray you , salute for me , most respectfully , your excellent wife , your colleagues , and the rest of our friends . Farewell , and regard me as Your most affectionate , ' J . LOCKE .
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No . 8 . : John Locke to Philip A Limborch . Rotterdam * Sept . 2 S , 1687 . Most excellent Friend , YOU are really too severe an exactor of your own services to your friends , yet ecjually disposed to excuse their negligence . Thus you' accuse your 7 self of delay , even to hitii whom you have proved to be of all men the most dilatory . I am , therefore , unwilling the axiom should be adopted by ydu , which you unluckily apply to your last , nothing is WQrse titan a dilatory friend , whether you refer ta youfstelf ,
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i 6 £ T % & , CQrre $ po 7 i $ e ^ Limborch , translated .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/10/
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