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been much affected by the sudden death of the excellent Archbishop of Canterbury . * I had designed to send htm a copy of my Christian Theology , but he died the day before it should have been presented to him . I grieve
for the state of the Reformed Church , deprived of such a patron , a prelate so prudent and enlightened , and of such a Catholic spirit . May God , who even from stones can raise up
children to Abraham , raise up for us a successor , if uot equal to him , which can scarcely be expected , yet treading as closely as possible in his steps . May he vouchsafe to you and Lady Masham a life extended to distant
years . Adieu , and cease not to regard me as Yours , most affectionately , P . k UMBORCH .
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No . 9 TL . John Locke to Philip & Limborch . London * Dec . 11 , t 16 Q 4 .
My worthy Friend , I DULY received your book % from the bookseller , and your letter of the 12 th instant , both highly acceptable as they were yours , and as they came
from you . Your letter I read from the beginning to the end with the greatest pleasure , and I congratulate your new daughter on having obtained such a father , whose mind wants neither strength nor sensibility . §
A Christian man might wonder whence the disposition of some men were derived , unless he had been conversant with a certain description of Christian zealots . But such men are to be found every where . Whether thev seelr the salvation of souls , or make gain of the gospel , let others decide . 1 cannot but lament and feel indignant for what 1 behold here , there , and in all places .
? Tillotson . He died Nov . 23 , 1694 , in the 65 th year of his age . -f- This letter , in answer to Limborch * s of the 12 th , NVS ., is misdated , or rather , according to the O . S . See p . 296 , Note * . f The Christian Theology .
§ Gratulor filiac turn talemilli obtig-isse patrem cui nee mens de fuit , nee viscera . " Here may possibly be a reference to the last letter mentioned p . 470 , Note * . See Le ClercVclosing remark . vox ,, xiii . 3 q
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Your Christian Theology I shall diligently peruse at the first leisure I can command . 1 thought myself , indeed , just now almost withdrawn from such studies , and I feel more than ever the want of your neigh * bourhood , since he has been taken from us , that able and candid
investigator of truth , not to speak of his other virtues . I have now scarcely any one whom I can freely consult , on dubious points of divinity . What a man the English public have lost ,
what a support the Reformed Chunpb , let others decide . I have , indeed , been deprived , to my great injury and regret , of a friend sincere and candid , and endeared to me by the intercourse of many years . *
Your additions to the History of the Inquisition , soon as I return to the country , I shall insert , in their proper places , as an additional proof of your friendship . Your caution is just , respecting the extracts from the Travels of Du Mont . Nor even as to the rest
of your writers ( which you use cautiously ) can their evidence be alleged , when they are of the Reformed * or merely travellers . Yet , I think their relations not inapplicable , who attest those things which grow out of the papal system ; such relations , I mean ,
as suppose that so fair an occasion of serving the cause and suppressing heresy , would Hot be neglected , or confessions of moment entirely con * cealed , though they might not be divulged to the laity , and to those who were not in office .
I write thus in haste , amidst the business of town , and with lungs panting for breath , to inform you , that your valuable presents have reached me safely . If my faulty silence may
be thus punished , it were not inconvenient for me to transgress ; for I am disposed io apply to your letters what was justly said of Cicero ' s Orations , that the longest is the best .
When I came to town on Wednesday last , I found at my lodgings a letter from our friend Le Cleic , of the
| | t jn _ L . .. . _ .-. , .. i i- - ¦ ¦ r - - . ' i - ¦ i - iu . mi i 1 i ^ m —i " m rrw ~~~** " —^——* " Ego certe a multis annis slabilem , candid u m , si nee rum , summo meo cum damno et desiderio , ami si amieuta . " This passage must certainly refer-to Til lot son and there is probably « no other part of Mr . Locke ' s writings , which marks ao strongly his intimacy with the Archbishop .
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The Correspondence between Locke and Limborch , translated . 4 $ t
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 481, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/9/
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