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that a mixture of English and foreigners , of ancient and modem litres i $ the best way to satisfy everj body . I send you here , Sir , three articles , which together will not fill above a sheet and a half . I have another
Aubery , of whom Bayle says but a word * and whose article yet is very curious * I will send it you to-morrow ; yet , Sir , if you think that these articles will prevent that of Bacon ' s coming into the next Number * or only will too much swell the letter A , you are at liberty to suppress them .
I am about the Lord Audley , he being an Englishman has a right to come in ; you'll have him nejxt Monday morning , if it be not wanted sooner . My supplement to the letter A consists only of three or four articles , which I will send next week .
With regard to Bayle ' s Life , as our first volume is but of nine Numbers , it will not , perhaps , be improper to print that Life by itself , th ^ t it may be placed at the head of the first
volume , to make it of a size with the rest This will also considerably shorten the letter B . ; but I submit it to your judgment * which I will always be ready to follow .
I am , Rev . Sir , Your most obedient bumble Servant , W . BERNARD . The Rev . Mr . Birch , frc .
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No . 5 . Rev . Anthony Athey * to Mr . Birch . Shepton Mallett , Rev . Sir , Ji&y 12 , 1734 . I HAVE delayed writing in expectation of receiving a catalogue of Mr . Browne ' s MSS . from a Mead who
had promised it me * But fearing it might be too late to wait longer , I have sent you the letter and the petition 1 mentioned . The letter is exactly a * I repeated it to yoij , except that I have onjiitted one sentence , wbick I do not think so proper tq h * ve made pufrUev Jf I should receive
* A Dissenting minister . He published a funeral sermon far Mr . S . Broiv ^ who dUd ut £ heptan M * ll «* t , hi * native pl * ce , Dec . 1732 , in his 52 d pea * . Sff m * g Brit * II . 640 and 646 .
the catalogue in any time , you shall again hear from . Rev . Sir , Your very humble Servant , A . ATHEY .
P . S . My humble service to Mr , Gough . To the Rev . Thomas Birch , in St . John ' Lane > fyc . Part of a letter of Mr . Simon Browne '
" 1 believe you sincerely pity my conditioa , and according to ths b $ st of your ability have endeavoured to recommend me to the Divine mercy . Ngi ? do I impute your ignorance , a&y
more than that of others , to an , y thing else , but the just judgment of t ? he Almighty , who was determined to destroy me , and would have no n ^ plication made in nay l } ehalf .-r-r—All
thought ia me is now quite goae . The thinking being is entirely extin ct * The very remembrance that any th . ing in me ever knew any truth , or desired any good , is lost . So that I must either have a n $ w soul or this new made , os I can never be what I once
was , though I have iio remewbia ^ ce , no not the least , that I evei : was Qtheif thaa I ^ m , or desire to be pthe ^ Y ij caiinot pr ^ iy for this ^ aless youj Ita ^ v ^
a faith in miracles . \ thii ? iH , therefore , it is high time for you fc > cea ^ all meqtioa of i ^ e in your prayers , and le ^ ve pie in the h . aijds of a hglyr and just and jealoiis , but to m $ utterly unknown God .
^ S . R , A t petition at the close of a gyac § . •* Lord , shine down upon this cW ^" ness . Speak but one reviving ^ restoring word , and out of these ruins a man shall arise and praise thee ! " *
* See another petition , in the same strain , and his extraordinary Dedication to Queen Caroline , Adventurer ^ No . 88 . Brit . Biog . II . 646 . This learned and pious Christian minister , whose melancholy case was almost &iog-ular , was the immediate predecessor of J > r . Chandler , af : the Old Jewry . H ^ wrote
" A sober and j ; haritab ] £ Djsqui&hioa con'cerning the Importance of the Doctrine of | l > e Trinity * amdj "A pt Rebuke to a Ludicrous Infidel ^ " against Wofllston * tnoug-Ji ' * Jj ^ ex Dressed in fery stro n g- terms his < fi sap probation" ojf that writer's prosecutian . "Tliere is a Life of Mt . 6 . Browne
hf Bf . Tow « r » , ip JBiog . Brit . II . pp . 641 —647 . ¦ % ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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From Rev . Anthony Atiiey to Mr Birch . 475
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 475, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/3/
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