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    two others , supported the merit of works . George Whitfield and James Hervey , ( author of the Meditations , ) adopted the Galvinistic side of the question ; Messrs . Delaiwotte , HaJJ , Hutchins and Ingram trimmed and became Moravians . The Rev , George

    Stonehouse , of Hungerford Park , ( afterward Sir George Stonehouse , of East Brent , in the county of Somerset , Baronet , ) had been labouring to reconcile the different opinions of his feilow-colJegians , till fye stood alone in support of his favourite tenet , viz *

    that Universal Restitution was & Scriptare doctrine ; and as the arguments he used with his different opponents had ever prevailed , they severally promised , that if he would collect his thoughts together in a discourse upon that subject , it should receive a candid answer .

    "He married , in 1739 , a daughter of Sir John Crisp , Bart ., a niece and heiress of Sir Nicholas Crisp , Bart ., with whom he had an elegant seat at Darnford , near Blenheim , in

    Oxfordshire , which he left to go on his travels , with the sole view of consulting the Syriac copies of the New Testament , in the different libraries of Europe , under the idea that our Lord delivered his discourses in Syriac , and not in Greek . He was on his travels

    twenty years , twelve of which he spent in Germany , chiefly with Count Zinzendorf . During his peregrination , he became such a proficient in the Syriac tongue , that he wrote a very

    copious grammar of that language ; and was so indefatigable in his scriptural studies , that he was able immediately , and without hesitation , to translate any passage in the Bible into tliirteeu different languages . 4 €

    He published his * Universal Restitution a Scripture Doctrine , ' in 1761 . Although this book surprised the learned world , it was never answered . On a visit from Mr . Wesley , Mr . Stonehouse said , ' Ah , John , there are only you and I living out of us * all . * W . * Better you had died

    * " This alluded to a Society who sat down to a sumptuous dinner at Oxford , on a gaudy day , which , by way of self denial , was , at the motion of Mr . Wesley , left antouched by the whole company , and sent t $ > the prisoners in the Cattle /'

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    too , George , before you had written your book / S . 4 I expected you had eaten up my book at a mouthful , John ; but neither you nor any of the rest , though you all engaged to do it ,

    have answered a single paragraph of it . ' W . * You must not think your book unanswerable on that account . I am able to answer it , but it would take up so much of my time , that I could not answer it to God . This

    declaration so stung the author , as to put him upon writing Universal Re ~ stitution Vindicated : printed by S . Farley , Bristol , 1773 . * ' Sir George Stonehouse , Bart .,

    died 5 th December , 1793 , and was buried at East Brent , Somerset , where be had purchased an estate of seven hundred pounds per annum , and resided upon it the last twenty years of his life . *

    ** Some time before he died , he presented the copy-right of all his works to the president of Burnham Society , with a view to being printed in an uniform edition , under his own in * spection , as his last thoughts ; under *

    taking to correct , v * ith his own hands , all those proofs which contained any Greek , Hebrew or Syriac elucidations . The following were the works proposed to be printed by subscription , containing about 1200 pages :

    ** 1 . Universal Restitution a Scripture Doctrine , 468 pages , 5 s . 1761 . €€ 2 « Universal Restitution farther Defended , 148 pages , 2 s , 1768 . ** 3 . Universal Restitution

    Vindicated against the Calvinists , 176 pages , 2 s , 1773 . " 4 . fJEvangelica ] History Defended , in answer to Farmer ' s Inquiry , Is . 3 d . " 5 . Apostolical Conceptions of God , in a Series of Letters , 180 pages ,

    1786 . " 6 . A Second Part to the last Tract , ] 60 pages , J 787-" 7 . Various Miscellaneous

    Manu-* Mr Storehouse was presented to th « » Vicarage of Islington , in 1738 , and resigned it 1741 y the reason- "f which we find in the History of Caiionbiiry , p . 51- ' * [ This would he a suitable extract for the Monthly Repository , which vie beg- leave to suggest to . any of our reader * who may have the opportunity of furnishing * it . Ed . } f The 1 st , 2 d , 3 d and 4 th , I bare i& my possession * G . 3 . B «

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    Mr * JBromhead cm Stonehouse $ Universal Restitution . 666 '

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 565, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/29/