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By Dr . Cornwallis , then Bishop of LichfieJd , afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury , who had . been his pupil at Christ College , he was appointed to the archdeaconry of Staffordshire , and
to a prebend in the church of Lichfield . * By his old acquaintance , Dr . Green , Bishop of Lincoln , he was made a prebendary of that church . But in the year 1767 , by the intervention of the Duke of Newcastle , to
whose interest , in the memorable contest for Ihe high-stewardship of the University , be had adhered in opposition to some temptations , he obtained a stall in the Church of Durham . The year after this , t the Duke of Grafton , who had a short time pefore been elected Chancellor of the
University , recommended the master of Peterhouse to his Majesty for the bishopric of Carlisle . This recommendation was made , not only without solicitation on his part or that of his friends , but without his knowledge , until the duke ' s intention in his favour
was signified to him by the archbishop . In or about the year 1777 , our bishop gave to the public a handsome edition , in four quarto volumes , of the works of Mr . JLocke , with the life of the
author , and a preface * Mr . Locke ' s writings and character he held in the highest esteem , and seems to have drawn from them many of his own principles : he was a disciple of that school , t About the same time , he
house whenever he pleased . The place is said to have been made , and a salary of 50 / . per annum annexed to it , for the sake of giving * it to Dr . C Midclleton 5 and has since been continued for the same reason that it was instituted . ( See Nichols e s A necdotes of Bowyer , p . 62 , note §) . Dr . Law
was appointed casuistical professor , 1764 . Since writing * the former part of this note , I have seen it simply stated ( in HutehinsoiTs History of Durham , II . 217 ) , that * having * a numerous family , he afterwards accepted the office of principal librarian , and that of casuistical professor /'
* 1763 , Archdeacon of Stafford and Prebendary of Liehfield . 1764 , Prebendary of Lincoln . f- Dr . Law was installed August 8 , 1767 , a Prebendary of Durham . His
appointment to the bishopric of Carlisle was in February , 1769 , and he held ttie mastership of Porterhouse and the rectory of Graystock £ n cttMtnentictm . ( Hutchinson ' s Hist , of Durham , II , 217 , ) £ -Ji should kfieta' that the department
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published a tract , which engaged some attention in the controversy concerning subscription ;* . and he published new editions of his two principal works , with considerable additions , and some
alterations , f Besides the works already which Bishop Law undertook in this edition had been too hastily executed to answer the expectation of his friends . See H 0 IH 3 Memoirs , I . 387 , 588 . * This very valuable tract , entitled , u Considerations on the Propriety of
requiring a Subscription to Articles of Faith , " was printed at Cambridg-e , 1774 . It was answered by £ > r « Randolph of Oxford , from the Clarendon Press . 4 < AT Friend qf Religious Liberty' * replied to the Oxford champion , the same vear , in a very able u Defence of the Considerations . " A tract
pretty confidently ascribed to Dr . Paley * f The first edition of Dr . law ' s Theory was published 1745 [ at Cambridge , without tbe Discourses and Appendix 9 under the title of u Considerations on the State of tbe World , with regard to the Theory of Religion / ' dedicated to Lord Lonsdale ] . The seventh and last was printed at Car * .
lisle in 17 S 4 , and , as Dr . Pa ley says , " with some alterations , " so likewise with some u considerable" omissions , as well as " additions . " Dr . Xaw had , by gradual progression , advanced into tbe . A nan system , and in his last edition be appears to have shaken off the shackles of the pre-existent doctrine- In a private letter to a friend ,
[ Mr . LmdseyJ dated from Cambridge , Sept . 23 , 1783 , he says , " I desire your acceptance of my Cumberland edition of m $ Theory ^ ( anti-dated in the title , ) purged of some ancient prejudices relative to preexistence , &c . " [ See Mr . Beta ham ' s Mem . of Lindsey , p . 163 . ] And it is not a little singular , that after the bishop had expunged
from his text what chiefly appertained to his iC ancient prejudices , ' he was obliged to leave the management of his index . some heedless curator of the press , and we are consequently directed as follows : ~—u Christ , bis original state , p . 289 j" But upon consulting tbe place , the passage is not to be found . Part of the words omitted
by the autbor are the following : •—*' . Let us begin where the beloved disciple dates his gospel , ( who had much higher manifestations , and a more perfect know / edge of his master , than any other of the Evangelists , ) and with him reflect a little on Christ ' s original state and subsequent humiliation .
That a being * of infinite grlory and perfection , the image of the invisible God , the first-born of every creatu re , and the Lord of heaven find earth , should condescend to degrade w hinoself from all this power and dignity , detest himself of er ry glorious a ^ tnbute , ? ^ - If more eviden&e were wanting , more ; migjit
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2 Q 2 Memoir of the Life of Edmund Law , D . D . Bishvpof Carlisle . . ¦ - ¦ -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1818, page 292, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2476/page/4/
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