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THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LOCKE AND LIMBORCH, TRANSLATED, WITH HISTORICAL NOTES.
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About twenty-five years ago , the chapel in Bowl-Alley JLane was attended by a very numerous congregation , consisting of the most respectable families in the town ; but their
numbers suffered great diminution at the close of the century . Several of the representatives of wealthy families , whose names stand in the register as having been baptized by the
minister , have now forsaken the house in which their ancestors had long worshiped . The number of constant attendants has not , for some years past , exceeded one hundred and fifty . But amongst them a considerable de-
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The Correspondence between Locke and Limborch , 1685—1704 . ( Continued from p . 612 . ) No . 32 . John Loche to Philip & Limborch . Oates . March 4 , 1697 .
My worthy Fkienp , ETWEEN public business and Bmy own indifferent health , I enjoy so small a portion of literary leisure , that I must trust to your consideration towards your friends , to excuse my too long silence , which ,
however , has not been occasioned by the least diminution of good-will and regard . I will not inquire whether you or I wrote last . It is sufficient
that I feel myself culpable , for having been so long without the advantage of your most agreeable correspondence . It seemed , indeed , to me a great and lamentable chasm in the course of my life , when our correspondence being interrupted , I was destitute of that highest of all gratifications which is derived from the
affectionate intercourse of friends . Attention to my infirm health , occupied me in the country during all the past winter , except when some urgent business frequently intruded and
snatched away the time which I might have devoted to my friends . I know not what else to say to yourself or many other friends , or how I can otherwise save my reputation , if they
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gree of religious inquiry goes on . Sunday schools , for all denominations , were established in April last , in which about fifty children are instructed . Most of the yoiinger members are engaged as voluntary teachers , and the older members as visitors and
contributors . The books in the library , particularly the modern publications , added to it principally during the ministry of Mr . Severn , are much read . But the object which excites most interest , is , the new Unitarian Association , from which extensive benefits are anticipated .
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have attributed my silence to neglect . You , I know , are too kind to impute to me that offence . For though my pen is sometimes rather tardy in replying , yet my mind is not indifferent : and if I take this freedom , it
is only with those with whom I would cultivate not only civility , but sincere and intimate friendship , those to whom I acknowledge that I owe much , and to whom 1 greatly desire to be more indebted
-Going lately to London , after suffering , during eight days , from shortness of breath , I was forced to return hither for recovery . This weakness of lungs , will , I hope , soon restore me to my former leisure . For what has an aged valetudinarian to offer his
country besides his good wishes ? All must yield to nature ' s decay . If here 1 can have books and the correspondence of friends , the employments which have been suspended , or at
least interrupted , those best alleviations of old age will be resumed . For , amidst public engagements , there is scarcely leisure to inquire what is going forward in the Republic of Letters .
Among us , too many writers waste their ink in strife and bickering- If the warmth of the disputants were excited solely by a love of truth , the ardour and energy of their debates would be worthy of praise . But their arguments are not always so managed that you cap give them credit for a
The Correspondence Between Locke And Limborch, Translated, With Historical Notes.
THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LOCKE AND LIMBORCH , TRANSLATED , WITH HISTORICAL NOTES .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 670, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/6/
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