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¦ ^ *¦ : . here . As Wise £ s Lord Chancellor * as innocent as a primitive Christian . I spealc iny hearty my friend : although I have tutored all these chaps from their youth , they have grown so , that I feel an awe of their wisdotii , when I preach before them . Old for > l that
.. tification I met with at findings you abseiit 9 when I came to consult ydti , and th& advice you gave me- on a rapid sketch to draw up a plan , and print by subscription . Glad I ain I did not , for 1 should then have printed a meagre plan , and au incomplete
I am ! Afraid to preaoh before a church , as Harmless as dove $ > because theyare as wise < ts serpents . ¦ - I hope it is not a slavish fear : I think it is a just sense of my own inequality ; to speak of such a subject * and a clear conviction of , and a . due respect for ,
work . I thought I bad the Baptist history , and only rejected your advice , because having been bitten by booksellers , ( you know where , ) I dreaded subscription , or any thing to do with them . A great revolution ! has since been produced in my mind , and riot
having , by giving out proposals , tied up myself to any plan , I found myself quite at liberty to create what form I pleased . I have , therefore , dissolved all the first mode , and taken up another , perfectly new . I was led to do so by a happy circumstance , which gave me a free access to the inexhaustible mines
of information in the University library—perhaps one of the first > in Europe . In all languages , on all subjects , of all editions an exuberant plenty . I have done nothing for almost two years , but study the Baptist history , and I have had many loads of books to go til roughs The little
despised article of believer ' s baptism is inexhaustible , and evidently on your side of the question . - It hath not happened -to me as to the Sybil , I have not burnt and diminished my commodity to raise my price . On the contrary , I hav ^ increased my work to near three quarto volumes . *
I being , as most Baptists are , a Baptist for New Testament reasbfris , never troubled mj'self for years about the history . It was Scripture , that was enough for me . After 1 read English history , I thought I knew it . No : I never knew the history . of Baptism till lately . How should I ?
Public libraries were impenetrable to me , and no private libraries can afford to purchase the books necessary . When I met with the Spaniards , L could not do any thing till , 1 < - had learned a little Spanish . I conquered that . Then the Italians stared at me , and I at them ; but we had no
con-•'• ¦ ¦¦ .. ¦ ¦ ¦ * ; ; ' ¦ ' ' " ¦ * The work was put to the press" f > y Mr * Robinson , hut not published till after his death . ~ It ^ as comprised in one volume , 4 to /» 6 f 053 tplose ^ priftte ^! pages , illustrated l > y ten beautiful engravings . l -: A .-:: , \ ' r ., ¦) . . : ; , •¦ ¦ ^ . \ , < BJF .,
superior understanding . What hath God wrought ? a First of your kind ! Society divine ! Still '" visit thus my cot , for you reserv'd , And mount my soaring * soul to thoughts like yours . Silence , thou lonely power ! - The door he thine : .
See on the halloVd hour that none intrude , Save a few chosen friends , who sometimes deign - To bless my humble roof , with senserefin'd , Science digested well , exalted faith , Unstudied wit , and humour ever gay /'
Father Winch used to reproach me for / arming : well <—I ^ have done farmingp and done nothing the last two 3 'ears but study and preach . I have no other employment but my garden , and no animals but two cats , who
dflily remind me that I have not lost all esteem . Daily we make a journey to the river side , and compliment Waltvorth in a weeping willow , once a little Uvig over a bason of gold fish in Paradise , now Hk ^ me , pendent over a river . —My wife says it weeps for the absence of Mr . K ,: —I , who
love to contradict , say—No , it weeps for her foolish attachment to a naughty man , who will not , once in three years , step aside to ask how she arid the willow do . I often smile to myself in recollecting Tarquin , the Sybil , and you . The old Sybil carried nine books to Rome , and offered them to Tarquin at a high price : the king / refused them : she burnt three ; aud offered the six again at the same price : lie' refused : she burnt three more , and then Tarcjuiti gave her the first ^ oposed price fat the three . * You recollect how little , Dl > , G entered really ijitq our viejvs of a Baptist history * You remepaber how little , G-: contri ^ ated iby a Ip ^ i ? of books . You remember the ^ mor-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/7/
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