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the courtier ' s further inquiries * that " she really did not vreil know what they tau # ht hkn ; but , to speak freely , she was afraid not much - y that they were in the country , and followed their diversions , and not much else that she could discover . "
P 52 , col . 2 . " The Bishop of Peterborough , Mr . Stone and Mr . Scott . " The Princess ( Diaryy 1 / 2 ) says , " that Stone was a sensible man , and capable of instructing * in things , as well as in books—that Scott , in her opinion , was a very proper preceptor ; but that for the good Bishop , he might be , and she
supposed he was , a mighty learned man , but he did not seem to her very proper to convey knowledge to children - , he had not that clearness which she thought necessary ; she did not well comprehend him herself , his thoughts seemed to be too many for his words . "
This Bishop of Peterborough was Dr . John Thomas , who had first sojourned at Lincoln , and was , in 1761 , translated to Salisbury : " Another and another still succeeds , And the last See more welcome than the former . *'
This Prelate has been exalted , apparently with grpat justice , to " a had eminence , " by JVakeJield , in his Memoir s % I . 15 , 16 . He is there represented ( from his treatment of my
friend's father ) as an " episcopal tantalizer , " who made a " common practice of exercising the credulity and insulting the feelings of his inferior clergy /'
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Remarks on our lord ' s Question to Peter , <( Simon , Son of Jonas , love&t thou me more than these ?" John xxi . 15 . Sir , January 2 , 1822 . r I THESE words are capable of three JL interpretations . ( 1 . ) Lovest thou
me more than thoulovest these things , —• thy nets , thy boats and thy fishing employ meut ? ( 2 ) Lovest thou me more tkan thou lovetft thy fellow-di $ eiples ? ( , 'i ) Lovest thou me more
than these love me t l& thy affection for me stronger and more ardent than that of Thomas and Nathanoel , John aad James , aini those two other dfeeipies ( ver . 2 ) who have accompanied theo in tliis fishiog expedition ?
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The first of these interpretations ^ (< lovest thou me more than thou lovest th y nets , thy boats and thy fishing employment V —has been adopted by Whit by and Pearce , and certainl y has the claim of ingenuity to recom * mend it . Peter was by occupation a fisherman ; and , judging from many little circumstances which are incL
dentally mentioned in the Gospels , was fond of his employment , and took a pleasure in it unconnected with any prospect of emolument . It was , therefore , reasonable , as well as natural , that Christ should endeavour to obtain
from his own lips a confession that he was not less attached to the cause of the gospel than to his worldly occupation . Hence it has been thought , that , in the question , " Lovest thou me more than these } " our Lord had a reference to the instruments of Peter's trade ; which are supposed to have been upon the spot where Jesus and his disciples were assembled at the time when this interesting dialogue commenced . But there is a delicacy and reserve in the Apostie ' s answer , which was altogether unnecessary on
the supposition that the question re * lated merely to his worldly occupation : for , though he promptly aad unhesitatingly replies * " Yea , Lord I " the answer is afterwards so qualified as to exclude all idea of comparison between his love to Christ and othef
objects . It is also worthy of remark , that , in his subsequent answers , he repeats , without any material variation T what he had said in his first rejvly ; cautiously avoiding tliat comparison , whatever it might be , which it was the design of our Lord's question to draw from liim : " Lord , them knowesc all
things ; tlum knowest that I love thee : " A& if lie had said , " I am unwilling , after the severe trial which my fidelity and attachment have lately undergone , and the imperfect manner in which my love towards thee has been displayed , to make any further professions ; but , notwithstanding toy three-fold denial of thee . at which thou
hast manifestly hinted by thrice repeating this embarrassing question , 1 can affirm , with sincerity and confidence , that nay love towards thee still remains unshaken * " Now , had Peter attributed to our Lord ' s question fat meaning assigned to it by the advoca ^ of Ihe above l&tttipretation , * it ; appears
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76 Remark * en © wr Lords ' Question to Peter , Jvhn xxi . 15 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1822, page 76, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2509/page/12/
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