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counts , of which I spare you the recital * I will only nay , that confessors , who every where else are bound to keep confessions secret upon pain of being burned , are here obliged to disclose them , whenever they concern the Inquisition , though they do not avow this ; lest people should refuse
to be confessed ; though * indeed , it is a thing well known . Yet to avoid suspicion they sometimes wait a year or two without making any discovery . Tjhen the Inquisitor directs the person ' s apprehension , and demands of him if he knows why he is taken up . He is thus set upon recollecting all which he has ever said . If
unfortunately his memory fails him , or the crime of which he is culpable was so secret , that his confessor alone had knowledge of it , and , trusting to his secrecy , he decline to confess it , it is all over with the man , they strangle
him in prison , and sometime after inform his relations that they need not bring him any more food , Happy those who are not subjected to such a yoke P Du Mont , nouveau Voyage au Levant , p . 158 , imprime en IQmo , a la Have , l 694 >
I eagerly expect those long letters you threaten , and if you thus revenge my silence , how will you reward my diligence ? I rejoice that your Theology is so soon to be republished . * I have no doubt but you will find a
few things to correct , but you will add much from the same source , and increase the value of the work , among your readers . It is , I know , in great estimation among the divines of the English Church . What will be the result I know not , but I understand
that some who had embraced Calvinism and Predestination , openly defend such writings , at least it is so reported among them . To wbat extent this society , yet very private and
small , may grow , I cannot conjecture . All their affairs are yet kept very close , and if from those with whom the society originated , and whose names a certain friend whispered in
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ . IIW *^ W _ rV ¦ m . —UL _ JL-dL _ JLl—i ^_ . -MM— Jfc-I— - ~ " "• i 1 i r ~ Tn TMiV U . ai i _ . J 1 n _ . i -r * It was first published in 4 to . in 1686 , under the following- title , u Theologia Christiana ad praxiin pietatis , ac promoticnem Christianas uniee dirccta . " See Biog . Diet . 1264 , VIII . 250 . Le Clerc ' s Oration In Ilugheft ' s MisceL pp . 218 *—220 .
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my ear , one may venture to guess , I think it will not long be kept up , unless something similar should arise elsewhere , and produce new supporters . Whether this enterprise of
a few , produce any thing beyond private conversation among themselves , time will discover , and then their views and purpose will be better understood . * But enough of these things .
It truly vexes me that we live so distant from each other . If . we were neighbours you would find me continually at your door to ask your counsel . There are , indeed , but few men of correct judgment with whom one can discuss freely points of
speculation , and especially religious topics . Mutual candour and charity are sadly wanting , and while every one wishes to disguise his own ignorance , he will not easily excuse ignorance in another . Nor must you venture to propose your doubts to any , unless you are prepared to receive all their opinions ,
and to bow to authority , or to go away laden with the reproach of heresy . I do not thus complain , on my own account , as having suffered by the unjust judgment of friends ; yet it is truly pleasant to have at hand one with whom you can confer , without any reserve , on subjects of small or great
importance-Ihe second edition of my book on the Human Understanding has gone off quicker than I could have apprehended , nor has that heterodox Treatise yet raised up any where an opponent , f I wish it were written in such a language that I could avail
* Mr . Locke appears , by the expressions apnd ecclesite Anglicanas theologos ^ to have referred to some Anti-Calvinian members of the Church of England , rather than to the Nonconformists , who had
now warm disputes on what are termed the Doctrines of Grace . This year , 1694 , the Presbyterians separated , on these points , from the Independents , and established the Salters * Hall Lecture . See Toulmin ' s
Hist . View , 1814 , p . 210 . -f u Nee adlnfc , invenil dissertatio ilia , utcunqae heterodox y , oppugnatorem . " The opposition mentioned p . 297 , col . 2 , must therefore refer to n . period subsequent to the date of this letter . For thin second edition of the jEtoajr * Mr . L . wrote " a n « w chapter of Identity nn < 4 piversity " at the inttance of Mr . MolyntmXj to whom
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47 8 The Correspondence between Locke and Limborckf translated .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 478, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/6/
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