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for three , months I have found myself thus interrupted , it seems like enchantment that every day should bring engagements in succession , for which I could neither provide before-hand , nor avoid , however I desired it .
Lady Cudworth [ Masham ] and I have read together the table of the books etnd chapters of the History of the Holy Office , with grej&t pleasure . This foretaste excites our eagerness to see the whole work , which , I rejoiue
to find , is now in the press , as I heard lately from a Scotsman just returned from your country . May a work so important to the Christian world * proceed under the most favourable auspices 1
My hostess , a determined foe to ecclesiastical tyranny , often commends tome your ingenuity and judgment * and the labour you have bestowed so seasonably upon this work . She firmly believes that " whatever zeal may be displayed for the reformation
of religion and the spreading of the gospel , is in vain , while ecclesiastical tyranny , or civil controul over the concerns of religion , ( as it is now the fashion to call it , ) or under whatever more specious name it is concealed , prevails and is applauded .
What is done at last with that learned divine * who has been teaching such strange things concerning aiigels , in his book on the existence of spirits ? Will he not excite the zeal of his brethren , for religion , for truth , for
•* JZalthasar BekJcer who published a very learned work against the common opinions of possessions and the agency of spirits . Of this work , which was divided into four parts , tliQ first : part preceded by u an abridgment of the whoje ^ " was printed in 1695 , as u translated from a French"
version of the Dutch original , " approved of and subscribed by the author ' s own hand . " The title is , iL The World Bewitched , or an [ Examination of the common Opinions concerning" Spirits ; their Nature , Power , Administration and Operations . A $ also , the Effects Men are able to produce by their Communication . By Balthasar
Bekkev , D . D . and Pastor at Amsterdam . " The French version is in four volumes , 18 mo ., with a portrait of Bekker ^ who appears to have been very ili-Jbvoured , and his name written , probably * tti autogmpikf to the dedication of each Mliune * It is inj t ) ie libers ? <> f tfce British JVluseunru ^ \^ 1 / X 1 I , p , 450 .
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orthodoxy ? It will be strange , indeed , if he escape with impunity . Among us , the press , so far as I perceive , produces nothing which foreigners would much desire to read . Amidst the universal din of arms ** the strains of the Muses can be scarcely
heard * Theological contention , indeed , is now in a great measure composed and laid asleep , I would fain hope , with the good-will of all parties . But that is a vain expectation , nor can the controversies of divines be so
easily appeased . Yet , however uncertain in its continuance , a truce is good that may give exercise to mutual charity , and who can expect more ? I have great need of your kind consideration to forgive ray long silence . Be assured , that it caunot be justly
imputed to disinclination , or the least diminution of regard . You have always the chief share in my esteem , friendship and affection , and I shall ever so regard you . Continue to me the same , and believe me Yours most respectfully , J . LOCKE .
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No . 19 . Jofin Locke to Philip A Limborch . Gates , February 29 , I 692 . Most excellent Fbienp , IF you have estimated my friendship by the delay of my letters , I fear that you have suspected me of being inattentive to the claims of a
correspondence which * if circumstances allowed , I would improve in a very different : manner . But if 1 am dilatory , it generally happens when I ought to write to those for whom I especially desire to testify my good will and friendship , by the expression of deeds rather than of words .
Whether you will allow this excuse , I know not , but I hope you will thus consider it : for none can admire , esteem and love you more than myself . It is my present feeling , and thus 1 must always feel .
The delay of Wetstein , in editing the History of the Holy Office > does not please me , except as you will be induced to read it over repeatedly ; aad thus ofte& bringing it on the anvil , we afyaJJ have the work aft jast wore r ¦ 1 ' " , vi" * ' » — 'irt ""'" t ' tr ¦• * '" ¦ ! , ' "u * . " - .. ¦ — "< * , ¦ . — : »' - "• > ¦ ' ' * &afejr * i « g to ihe war between ISaigto 11 ' ^ and Fio ^ e .
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554 The Correspondefiee hetwemi Locke and Limborch , translated .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/10/
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