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THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LOCKE AND LIMBORCH, TRANSLATED, WITH HISTORICAL NOTES.
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The Correspondence between Locke and Lirnborch , 1685—17 O 4 . ( Continued from p . 229 . ) No . 15 . John Locke to Philip d Limborch . London , March 12 , 168 Q . MY EXCELLENT FRIEND ,
FEAR that you will suspect me of I neglecting you , because 1 have so long * continued a silence unworthy of your deserts , my own inclination , and our reciprocal affection . You will ,
I trust , assure yourself that a change of country has not been able to change my disposition towards you , which re-Hiains full of friendship and reverence , as it was before , and as it would be
wherever I might sojourn * But on returning to my country , the interchange of friendly visits , the trouble of seeking out and bringing together nay scattered property for present juse , and sotnie labours for the public good , ( think me not too presuming , ) formed an
occupation * and must be my excuse ; for when the public good is in question the private must give way . Yet , as the worst of all , my health , injured by the pernicious smoke of this city , so occupied me , that I could scarcely command a moment ' s leisure to
commence my present occupation . I , indeed , wrote a hasty line in my own language , and in the midst of company , on my first coining on shore , to Mr . Guennelon , and presented by him my respects to the rest of my friends at Amsterdam . Fo * I find nothing agreeable and delightful here , which does not remind me of what I have left
there , and what I cannot recollect without a satisfaction , which is not exceeded by present associations . Burnet is appointed to the bishopric of Salisbury . + In parliament ,
* Mr , Locke bad arrived in England about February the 12 th , 1689 , according to the Old Style ; which , I apprehend , he now adopted , having before used the New Style , according * to the custom of the Continent . This is mentioned to explain the date , p . 228 , in connexion with tbe date of Mr . Locke r s return , p . 229 . f u When the bishopric of Salisbury
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the subject of Toleration is now discussed under two forms , comprehension and indulgence . By the first it is proposed to enlarge the bounds of the Church , so that by the abolition of some ceremonies , many may be induced to conform . * By the other is designed , the toleration of those who
are either unwilling or unable to unite with the Church of England , even on the proposed conditions . How liberal or rigid these will be , I know not . I however suspect , that the Episcopal Clergy are not very favourable to these projects , and others in agitation . Whether they thus consult the public in * terest , or their own » . I will not decide . I am iu daily expectation ofr
became vacant , he solicited for it in favoufr of his old friend , Dr . Lloyd , then Bishop of St . A ^ aph . The King answered him , in a cold way , that , he had another person itt view ; and the next day he himself was nominated to > that See . ' Bnrnet ' s Life , annexed to the Hist . O . T . by his Sod , the
Editor , fol . Hi . 696 . Burnet says of himself , " I happened to come into the House of Lords , when two great debates were managed with much heatin . it . The one was about the Toleration and Comprehension , and the other was about the imposing the oaths on the Clergy . And I was engaged , at my first coming there , to bear a large share in-both . "' lb . II . 8 .
* This business was soon removed from the consideration of the Parliament to , a . royal commission of bishopg and clergy , and at length the scheme of com prehension entirely failed . The recommendations of revisal and alterations in the established
forms , were adopted by the authors of the " Free and Candid ^ Disquisitions , " 1750 , and acted upon in 1785 , by the Convention of the American " Protestant Episcopal Chureb , " assembled at Philadelphia . See Burnet 0 . T ., II . ID , 11 . ^ icboVs Defence , 8 vo . 1730 , pp . 109—117 . Birch ' s Life of TiHatson , 152 , &c . " Free and
Candid Disquisitions , " 8 vo . 2 d Ed . 1750 , p . 277 . " Book of Common Prayer , &c . a * revised and proposed to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church . " Philadelphia printed , London reprinted , 12 mo . 1789 . See the Preface . Tins Episcopal Church has retained of Creeds only the Apostles 7 and reduced the Articles to twenty .
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The Correspondence Between Locke And Limborch, Translated, With Historical Notes.
THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LOCKE AND LIMBORCH , TRANSLATED , WITH HISTORICAL NOTES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1818, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2476/page/8/
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