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indisposition destroy the pleasure I took in reading it , nor shall the hurry I am jn at present hinder me from returning some answer , which I can do now with the greatest confidence , because l-am at liberty to press the needless excuses you made for yourself into my own service ,
with this additional one too , that a man is as naturally dull when you expect a proof of his wit , as he is grave when you bid him be merry . So that for once you will pardon me if I confine myself entirely to the two venerable subjects you have coupled so happily together , priestcraft and ¦ " For as orthodoxy is
purely an effect of the former , I think it may very properly be ranged under the same head . Now if we take priestcraft in a larger sense , for that temper which engages the priests in most of their designs upon us poor laymen , I have met
with a small instance of it , which concerns you pretty nearly , in our friend Chandler- He can neither allow you to doubt of his staying in town after he had so positively asserted it , nor to write the first letter to me , when you had reason to believe he was in the same house ; and
therefore as absolutely insists upon a letter from you to begin the correspondence , as one ambassador does on a notification of another ' s arrival , though he saw him enter with his own eyes . If I
could have laughed him out of the fancy , you should have heard from us whilst I was ill ; but as our friend has not yet carried his point at the lecture , a line from you , I suppose , will remove all scruple and adjust the ceremonial .
The Oxonians talk very much of an act this summer for celebrating the King ' s victories over the Rebels , which they design as an atonement for past miscarriage . But , as my friend , from whom I had the news , informs me , the majority of them have not loyalty enough to shew that respect to the King , and too much pride
to pretend it : and though it were otherwise , he seems to question , with reason , whether his Majesty would accept of a compliment which , as coming from Oxford , would look so much more like burlesque . But the Universities serve very well to keep one another in countenance . Mr . Bowes has been at Cambridge lately , and , excepting their learning , nothing
could be at a lower ebb than their loyalty . It may be some proof of both to know they have let the King's library lie in a damp room , neglected all this winter ; and now some of them have the modesty to say , they know not of what service that present will be , unless his Majesty pleases to nfake them another of a house to put it i » . As for the remaining part of cmr present discourse ... » ... it i * a aubtect a
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little oat of my way ^ and . therefore I Have but littld to say upon it * The Jury at the Marshalsea , who had already acquitted two persons fully con * - victed of treason , have , this afternoon , contrary to the Judge ' s direction , done ^
the same favour to Mr . Townley ; and as they have not yet , jso I believe they are not likely for the future , to find one gf them guilty , unless there be made a very great change in them . Mr . Reyner designs you a letter ,, for he sent to me for direction . Mr . Burroughs and Mr . Reed send their services .
Thus I have wrote you a letter long enough I am sure ; if want of other good qualities make that a bad one , charitably believe the reason to be , that 1 was resolved to write by this post , and assure yourself that the ground of that resolution was , that 1 am , Sir , Your very humble servant ,
T . SECKEU . My stay in the country will not be many days .
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Questions proposed to Candidates for Holy Orders , in the Diocese of Peterborough , so arranged under Heads or Chapters * that they may exhibit a connected f ^ iew of God ' s Dealings with Man under the New Covenant . [ Taken from " A Vindication of the Questions , " by the Bey . Wm . Jephson , A . M ., ait 8 vof pamphlet , 1821 J
chap . r . Of Redemption by Jesus Christ . 1 . Did Christ die for all raen ? or did he die only for a chosen few ? 2 . If Christ died for all men , a ^ d the free gift of God therefore came upon all men to justification , may we thence conclude that all . men will be
nctually saved 1 3 , Is not God himaelf willing that jail men should be saved ? 4 . If then Christ died for all men , and God is willing that all tnea should be saved , must not they who fail of salvation fail through their owtf fault ?
5 , Does it not then behove us to inquire into the terms of our redemption , that we may ie ^ m to do whajr i 8 necessary on our parts towards itjhe obtaining of everlasting salvation £ , 6 . Is it not neoe ^ ary , in QTd §| : to acquire «* knowledge , of those , terms , to examine , jb- */ , lwtfe * : 9 it * te ill w ^» ch we were left by the Fall of Adam $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 507, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/3/
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