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myself of y qur jtidgment , on the whole work . Some urge me to give a trans * lation of it . The bookseller inquiring for a translator , and hopes soon to meet with one , for I have no leisure for the task . The state of my health , and continually increasing
engagements , woujd only allow me slowly and at intervals to read through your history , even though the pleasure of the perusal would scarcely suffer me to lay it aside * The bookseller requests me , however , to review the
translation , that I may correct any passage in which my sense may have been mistaken . This I can hardly refuse . But why should I weary you any longer with the tedious prolixities of this letter ? Farewell , and regard me as Yours , most affectionately , - J . LOCKE .
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was satisfied that your regard for me was undiminished , yet after so long a silence to see a letter from you was peculiarly agreeable . It is to me highly gratifying , that my History of the Inquisition has obtained your approbation j I know your judgment to be
other influence than to confirm her still more in Judaism ; because they went to prove Christianity a priori , as philosophers speak , omitting generally the authority of the New Testament ; and to the passages
which they quoted from the Old , sbe returned the common answers of the Jews , which she had been taught ' nor were they able to make any reply which could give her satisfaction *
*< While the young 3 * dy , who was otherwise mistress of sense enough , was in the midst of this perplexity , Mr . Veen , whom I mentioned before , happened to be sent for to the bouse , to visit a sick person ; and hearing the mother speak with great concern of the doubts which disturbed her
daughter ' s mind , he mentioned Limborch's dispute with Orobio , which put her upon desiring Limborch might discourse with her daughter , in hope he would be able to remove her scruples , and bring her back to the Christian religion , which , sbe professed , would be the greatest joy she could
receive . Limborch accordingly came to her the second day in Easter week , which was April 12 , and proceeding wi | h her , in the same way and method be had used with Orobio , he quickly recovered her to a better judgment . For ^ whereas she insisted , he should , in the first place , prove from the Old Testament that God had
commanded the Israelites to believe in the Messiah 5 he informed her , it was proper first to establish the truth of Christianity , and that afterwards he would sh « w her from the Old Testament that which she desired , as he really did . In the first conference , he prevailed so far , tbat she owned she was not able to answer him ; and at several other interviews in the same
week , he so entirely satisfied her , that she had no doubts remaining * . u Mr . JLimborch sent the sum of these conferences in a letter to our friend and acquaintance , Mr . John Locke ; from which , if it should ever be published , they who have a curiosity to know Limborch ^ s exquisite method , will understand the whole
affair more exactly : for the narrow limits of this oration will no I suffer me to ealarge upon it . I shall only add , tbat whatever some may whisper , the mother declared she thought it was , the hand of Divine Providence which brought Limborch into her house , and the daughter herself ever after honoured him as a father . " Ibid . 223— £ 25 .
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No . Q 8 . Philip k Limborch * to John Locke . Amsterdam * Dec . \ % 1694 , My excellent Frjjsnd , WITH great pleasure I received and read your letter ; for though I
he submitted it in MS . See Fam . JLet . Aug . 23 , 1693 ! * Le Clerc , in his Funeral Oration for Limborch , speaks of " letters lie sent and received ; which still lie private in his cabinet ! , except some few , which were published with Mr . Locke ' s , in 1708 . "
HugheVa Mi&cel . p . 229 . This is the first of his letters to Mr . Locke , which have been preserved , though it is evident that several must have preceded it . There was one , especially , of this year ' s date ^ on a very interesting- subject , as appears by the following * account in Le Clerc ' s Oration :
Ki In lf > 94 an accident happened , which , in the opinion of all equitable judges , made , wonderfully for the honour of Limborch , and of the Remonstrant divinity . I shall relate it the wore nakedly , because the person wlip was principally concerned in it is since dlead . There was a young gentlewoman in this city , of twenty-two years of
age , who took a fancy to learn Hebrew of a Jew , und was , by this opportunity , gradually seduced by him into a resolution of quitting the Christian for the Jewisb religlon . Her mother , when srie came to understand it , employed several divines to dissuade her from this unhappy design , but all ici vai " , for their arguments had no
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The Correspondence between , Locke and Limborcht translated * 479
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 479, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/7/
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