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From Rep . Theophilus Lindsey to Mr . ( afterwards Dr . ) W . Harris . [ See Three Letters from the Same to the Same , pp . 157--159 . ] Catterick , near Bedal , Dear Sir , March b , 1765 .
HOPE my last was received in its I due time from its date , though far from being so from the date of yours , which it c ^ me to acknowledge . Since the writipg of that , many things , well noticed / by you and by every friend
to liberty * have happened . Mr . Churchill's death , which was a public jjpss $ the Letter oj " Inquiry into IAbe ] Ls > t &c , and the attempt upon the printer 5 Mrs . Macaulay ' s noble and valuable history , and particularly her finished history-piece of the tyrant triumvirate Charles and his priest or Mufti or
Pope and his prime-minister . Mr . Blackburne , by the bye , in reading this last book , desired I would bid you observe the high character of Arcl ^ bishop Abbot 5 and , indeed , though he might be over peevish against Grotius , and in some other cases where Arminianism was concerned .
ypt he will fye ( cleared miicti of biame , if it be considered , jhpw ¦' . cprjnected popery and Armiuian ^ ip t and civil tyranny v ^ ere , iu pur own country , at that time ; and particularly , Jiow Grotius himself , with his reconciling tygh-church principles , did afterwards more than meet the Papists half way .
But there is a loss , which I declare myself to have felt for , and so I am Qure did you , more than any other lately , ancj that was , of your valuably
friend * and t ^ at t ^ ly honest . andable Englishman , au $ most edifying and entertaining friend and companion , Mr . Munckley . You will miss him sorely in his apnual visits * at hi& return from and to London ; and ill , likewise ,
qould the public spare &uch a man in these days . Our common great friend ill Pall-Mall will regret him , for I have heard hinv * n £ ntion hup i * i terms , of very high esteem * 1 capnot mention
thfs latter friend , without telliug you of an instance of his yrontsd generosity and public spirit , in presenting Mr . Archi . B . and your Immbjje servant lately each of us with copies of Wailis ' a 6 ranimar # and the noble Let-
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ters on Toleration . I hope he was well , if you heard from him latel y * 1 do not know whether you are acquainted with the learned and valw * able Mr . Brekell , a Dissenting clergyman at Liverpool . I had a letter from him lately , requesting a
subscription to a volume of sermons he has put to the press , —the first time he ever published that way , but which he is obliged to , by the losses which he has sustained by most of his publications . The price , —five or six
shillings : no money to be paid but on the delivery of his book . If you think proper to testify your regards to such a worthy man , you might , perhaps , procure some oth $ r friends ' concurrence , and signify your names to him , which he desires . Excuse a liberty which , I trust , yqu would without scruple take with me - -.
You will have seen advertised , An Historical View of the intermediate State between ; Death and the Etesujs rection : "—from the same motives as the above , I wish you would buy it ; and I do not doubt but , when you have read it , you will recommend it
to your friends at Exeter and Monitor } , This breathes in it a spirit of liberty and free inquiry , supported by so much real learning and good sense , as cannot fail of winning the unprejudiced reader to the doctrine represented therein and supported , and which I believe , from
the word of God , the only source of satisfaction on the point , to be the true doctrine . It is not to be told , how frantic and railing our high ~ churc , h , l and particularly the Papists are about it . Indeed , it throws Dagon down ,
and dashes him to pieces without mercy * I hope you are free from any severe returns of the gQut , ^ nij , Mrs . Harris also , and your niece and friends from any great afflictions of that or any other sort , Mrs . Lindsey and I have occasion to be thankful for
our lot in this respect ; myself in particular , who have been confined a little , indeed , by one or two colds , but never once laid up , or confined to a bed , as I used to be once or twice a yean I hope , witfr many oth ^ r $ . that your Biographical History W ia forwardness to appear in publio warily
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/12/
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