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predominant desire to explain and establish the truth . In my Essay on the Human Understanding , something is , at last , found out which is not quite sound , and which has been objected to by men of no common rank ,, * Should I
discover any errors on considering their arguments , I shall gratefully acknowledge and readily correct them . On the other hand , I ought to give my reasons why I adhere to my opinion when I cannot discover it to be
contrary to truth . My Defence \ employed me part of last winter , as health would allow * But why do I detain you with our trifles ? I wish to know what you and your friends are doing , who are occupied with
more important studies . How shameful is the demand of a speedy reply from you , when 1 have been so dilatory ! But I know you will gratify me , lest you should seem too seriously to avenge yourself for my delay .
Farewell , niy excellent friend , and still regard me as you have made me , Most respectfully yours , J . LOCKE .
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No . 33 . Philip a Limborch to John Locke . Amsterdam , March & 6 , 1697 . % My worthy Friend , I SHOULD sooner have . answered your letter , which did not reach me till the 15 th of October ; but as you
asked wy opinion of the English work translated into French , § I waited for sufficient leisure to read the whole of that elegant treatise , that I might attentively consider its contents , in their connexion . This winter season appeared peculiarly favourable to my design , when we are generally
re-* " Dr . Stillingfleet , Bishop of Worcester , in his Defence of the Doctrine of the Trinity , published in 1697 . " Stfe Brit . Biog . VII . 14 , 15 , 57 . -f- Ci A Letter to the Lord Bishop of Worcester , ' ' dated Oates , Jan . 7 , 1697 .
% Tliis Letter , dated according- to the N . S . appears to have been written before No . 32 , had Wen received . § See p . 610 , col , 1 . This translation , entitled Christianismc Raisonnabley was vepublished in 1715 , in two volumes , 12 mo , See Notiv . Diet . Hist . art . Locke * 177 £ , IV . 131 .
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lieved from academical engagements , but the severity of the cold interposed no small impediment to writing . I have read , however , the whole treatise from beginning to end , nor could I be satisfied without a second perusal .
In the mean time we have received here the Acts of Leipsie for the month of October , in which there is an abstract of that treatise , after the manner of those Doctors . First , they say the name of the author is Pockius , hastily trusting , ! fancy , to uncertain rumour ,
and mistaking one letter in the name . Then , they are careful to bring into the abstract every thing which seems calculated to excite prejudice against the author , that they may thus appear to avenge the contempt poured on systems of theology . They highly
extol John Edwards * for having distinguished himself by various controversial writings against the Socinian heresy , and having published a volume of Thoughts concerning the Causes and Occasions of Atheism , [ 1695 , ] especially in the present day . In this
book he is continually glancing at the opinions of that anonymous author , as pernicious , and not far from Socinianism and Atheism . They have subjoined an abstract of two works , one of which is a short apology for the aforesaid treatise ; the other is by John Edwards , and entitled Socinianism Unmasked , f You must be
bet-* " A Divine of the Church of England , " son of the virulent Presbyterian Edwards , the author of Gangrcena . He died in 1710 , aged 78 . See Biog . Brit . V . 543—546 . -f 6 i Or the Unreasonableness of the Opinion concerning' one Article of Faith only . " He also published u A Brief Vindication of the Fundamental Articles of the
Christian Faith , " and iC The Socinian Creed , " 1696 and 1607 . These , with some part of the treatise on Atheism , were " occasioned by Mr . Locke ' s publication of The Reasonableness of Christianit y , as delivered in the Scriptures , and by the writing's of some professed Socinians . Mr .
Edwards was the first person that encountered , what he apprehended to be Mr . Locke's dangerous notions of the one sole article of faith . Our author ' s writings against Mr . Locke , have sunk into total neglect , while The Reasonableness of Chris * tianity still continues to be read . " Ibid * 545 , Note . See Locke ' s Vindication and
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The Correspondence between Locke and Limborch , translated . 671
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 671, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/7/
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