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    of jtl # f * nb& $ f& , W tfca £ patient in-4 ufiry ^ asd diBgent researm h # t only confirmed him in the belief of Christiauity , but enabled lura J > o take his rank amongst the most ettu&ent and successful adyoc ^ tes of thfe go spel which his age produced , though no age abounded more In able and satisfactory defences of divine revelation .

    Ed . } - London , Sept . 13 th , 171 & Bear FfcraND , I had much . sooner answered your last , but that I expected , with

    impatience , that you would have written to pecker , to whom you have been longer yx debt than I to you . He cannot imagine the occasion of yo ^ r silence , though he is apt to think you a , re very wroth witli him * because he directed

    to tbe Rep * Mr . Fq $ . Wh y * my honest friend , you are not the first man that hath bad a title that did not be-Ippg tQ him , though the reason , of his g iving you that title , was your

    applying i % to m ^ :. upoii which account you ought to allow m # first to be angry with you , before you allow yourself to be ajigry with him . He is very ihuch concerned that you resent it ,

    and I must say , that I think it is without a&y occasion . Ypur first letter to itxe discovered a much stronger inclination to keep up a . correspondence with your London friends , tWn this action would seem to intiwiate i

    however , if I know my friend w ^ U , I am convinced so good aod generous a temper as yours wUl not keep a reseitf ; - ment too long ,, even though the foundation at first were just , much less when these was Httle or noi ^ e at all for it .

    And mow I could say ten thousand things , would I give a vent to my fancy , —blame nature , jpoyself , and all the world around me , with myself , nothing or something above whto % I WU * oomstimes $ asy with Respect to another world : sometimes in doubt

    whether there be my smsk St ^ ite or no , and sometimes whether there be any certain method of attaining to happiness in it . Sometimes the footsteps of Providence , methinks , are plain and clem * , and then the whole management of the world seams again to fee one grand disorder an ( l confusi&n . Some-* So in the copy . Eix

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    698 Letters from Mr . ( afterwards . Br . ) S . Chandler to Mr . John Fox .

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    * * _ iv ^ t . ^ r * - -. times r aim- f 6 reed | to c ^ wa the go e ^ ness ef the Supreme fieito ^ , a ^ ptdthen soon call it into question on account of that awful Being ' s dispensatioBs towards

    man , who , I am sometimes apt to imagine , came unfinished gut of th $ hands of his Maker \ at oilier times , to be a being much too mean and vile to be of a divine extract and original . As for religion , I profess I scarce knpw wh ^ re to fix , or what to believe . As

    for that of the Christian , 'tis true , there are nvany ttfiarmmgy beautiful things in it , but then titere wants that clearness of proof that a oopslderate person would wish , if ^ anfi , besides , * feis founded upon a reHgion that I eaa scarce ; aHow to be . divine . Th ^

    Scriptures we call inspired . I must have better proof for the msffeation of them , at lea $ tv \ th § strict sense of our dittoes , before I sh ^ iK believe them so . purely thkiga ineoWsiistent , dubi ous , obscure ; perplexed , arguments weak and inconclusive , copclusions oin

    forced and tmhatinM ^^ 6 jiM aeve ce from the God o ^ F truth ^ ndr order . By what arguments eah you prove that the " books- we receive are caaonieal ; thogie individual books and no o € i ^ rs , some of whieb were utot , received till

    about the eeatury of Christ , and then dubbed canonical by those wfco fcaew iao better than we ? How can thpse 5 be proved i » y frjend , to be of divine inspiratJon ? If these are the foundation of our faith , I eannot help

    sayiijrg , I coutd hfeve wiehed them a Httiemore certain , $ & $ , methtnks , Providetoce hath dejalt * tittle hardly by us , first to kave us without sufficient proof thafc they are genuine * and if we could know them lo be so , i } ot to afford lis Hght enough to ^ understand

    them . I ana afra 3 & te ^ t&ofa ^ j&ii will think T raut , Imt I profits > < & ¦ am in earnest . I mn in a perffee | lyand ^ ei ^ g and m « i # & . I pcaxpei Mik $ k * M ^ tut to belfeve >^ 4 | $ ^ M « ve . « ^ $ m , <* & > thin 8 I am yei ^ ccfet ^ ili oly $ m % J h » ve the truest love , to you , 9 tid am > with the utmost sincerity ^ *

    YoUr admirer , jRrifind &M . ^ fcepant , SAMp . mmWftER . I hope you ^ Jl t ^ 9 my )^ t ^ T ^ con ^ ukmtion , aadiwrit ^ &mi % f ecW ' IMreet us usual . ^ . . $ .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1821, page 698, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2507/page/2/