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ITigan , July 26 , —70 . Reverend Sir , It is I think as impossible for me to expresse the sense I have of your continued kindnesse as it is to deserve it :
nor doe I know what other account to give of your great readinesse upon all occasions to manifest it , but tliat good men , the more conformable they are to the blessed God , the more delight ,
like him , doe they take in doing good . My unfeigned thanks I return you for your letter and for all the discoveries of your friendship therein . As to the fmsincsse of Kedenrn ., I had some
account of it from Mr . Ffoley ' s chaplain who came to visit his friends that live not farre from Wigan , who told me that Mr . Hieron was or was like to bee chose Vicar , and made to mee the proposall of the Lecturer ' s place ,
like to bee worth 60 1 b . per annum , with my diet in Mr . Ffoley , my very good friend ' s family , who himself would , as Mr . Eccleston said , have sent to mee , but knew not where I was : for it was meer chaunce that hee
met with mee here , coming * m expectation to hear the Bishop : other arguments also hee urged , as my very great likelyhood of succeeding in the place , the present Vicar being- an ancient and infirm man , &c . : to all
which my answer was , that very willingly I should comply with this offer , if our Bishop was translated to that diocese . Since then , the last week I accompanied Dr . Tillotson on his way to London as farre as to Kederrn .,
where I hopt to have found Mr . Ffoley and had some discourse with him ; but when I came , both hee and his lady were out of town , and there was no other person there that I knew , so that I onely left a letter of the same
import with rny answer to Mr . Eccleston . Our Bishop is now gone to the Wells near Banbury : whether hee will bee removed or not is very uncertain : if not , I cannot I fear , with his goocl liking , leave Wigan . He professeth much kindnesse for mee , and
that hee shall bee ready to shew it when it lies In his power ; and though I believe him sijacere in these professions , yet I have no dependance upon them , onely I am unwilling to disoblige him or doe any thing that looks like ingratitude . Otherwise , was I guided purely by my own inclination , I should forthwith goe to Kedermin-
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ster . It hath indeed pleased God in some good measure to give mee an interest in the affections of the people I am with , and therefore I think it very reasonable to stay somewhile and see
to what good purpose this may , by God's blessing-, be improved , their necessities being as great as most I have coirfn amongst . But how long this consideration will engage my stay with them I cannot say , there being some inconveniencies of severall sorts
which I here grapple with , and in many other places should be free from . I have some thoughts within this fortnight or three weeks to take a second journey to Kederm ., it being but two little daies journey from us . In my way thence , I cald of Mr .
Casill , at Sheffnall , who with his family were all well , but him I found that night at Shrewsbury attending- at the sizes , and have promised him a more solemn visit ; I there saw my good old friend Mrs . Hunt also . The onely news these parts afford is , that three
or four Nonconformists are lately com ' n in , overcom ' n partly by the candour , partly by the arguments of our Bishop . The onely person of note is Mr . Tilsley , who , whether hee had any favour shewd him in his subscriptions or not I cannot tell : his license I
saw , which ran thus , Subscript is prizes omnibus de jure subscribendis . And I confesse the Bishop is engaged to great caution : for some of our highflown gentry are full of prejudice against him , and would , I doubt , be
glad of an opportunity of venting their spleen . I have had much discourse both with the Bishop and Dr . Tillotson about conformity , the particulars Pie not trouble you with , onely as to that place , Endeavour any alteration ^ &c .: they are both very earnest for it , that it may , without any violence
to the words or any evacuating the end of the law , bee interpreted , Such endeavours as tend to disturb the peace of Church or State ; and this particular the Bishop told mee Mr . Tilsly did not so much as scruple . It would bee too tedious to tell you my objections and their answers ; but if this might
indeed bee fairly so interpreted , one of my greatest objections against subscribing were removed . This I remember the Bishop added in his discourse with me , that as to all peao able endeavours , after such alterations
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146 Original Letters from and to Richard Baxter .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 146, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/18/
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