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out of Babylon , like a Jei& , a i ? 0-bert&on , or a Wakefield * " trusting , all l ^ is wealth with God , who called him " to make the sacrifice . J . T . RUTT .
JZdmonton , Jlpril 27 , 1691 . Dear Sir , That which I have of a long time feared is , at last , much against rwy will , come upon me . I always intended when any such thing happened
to ask the favour of you to be rny Chaplain ; which , if you please to grant , I must entreat you , according to custom , to preach the Consecration Sermon . The cliapel at Lambeth is
a little place , and the company will not be great . As near as I can foresee , Whitsunday , or Trinity Sunday at farthest , will , God willing , be the time . I have one request more which you must not deny me , and that is not to say one word concerning me
in your sermon ; which , I believe , your own prudence would have directed you to without this intimation . I entreat your answer , as soon as may be , to Sir , Your faithful frierrd and servant ,
JO . TILLOTSON . To the Rev . Mr . Barker , Senior Fellow of Caius College , in Cambridge , or to be sent to him if not there .
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Letters ef Archbishop ^ Mfoif ^ n ' s , fyc . tfm ^ M&S . British Museum . $ f §
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London , Dr . 19 , 1 / 20 . Kind Sir , In my last I forgot to answer your request with respect to the devils in the swine . I suppose you know it is my opinion that what is called possessions of devils in the New Testament ,
was no other , in fact , but distraction or madness . As to the particular case you refer to , [ Matt . viii . 31 , 32 , ] the best account 1 can give upon my principles is , that as it is thought at this day that cold baths
are a proper remedy for those disorders , so it might possibly have been practised upon the poor man then and as our Saviour was reputed as a man that cured all diseases , so the distracted person might fear that he should be plunged or flounced in the sea by him , as he had been by othqra
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be % j ^ and , tlmrefor ^ lie , entr ^ ted Oii&il ^ gbt not ^ 4 qns * bu f ^ tj ^ r . that he might go and be a companion for the 8 \? ine , which were thpn feeding near them . Our Saviour , in teaaefr ness to the man , would not refuse
bis request , but gave him leave to go among them , and as at his cure lie liad a very bad fit , so he affrighted the swine , and they , in that fright , ran . violently down into the lake . This is the best account I . can give of that case , which , I own , is a difficulty ijpon the Christian revelation *
Your much obliged friend and very humble servant , THO . CHUBB . Directed to Mr . John Clayton , in Endless Street , Sarum , Wilts .
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Reverend Sir , Your intimate acquaintance with whatever is curious in the annals of literature , but more especially your well-known zeal for truth and justice , has occasioned you the trouble of this letter from a man who certainly has
not the honour to be known to you * even by name . If any thing , however , can justify the liberty I take to beg your assistance , it must be the cause in which I demand it , which is no legs than the vindication of the memory
of Dr . Clark , both against the reproaches and encomiums of a French Jesuit , who , in a book newly published ( at Paris , under the name of Bern J against Voltaire , has advanced impudently the following lyes , which I shall translate exactly .
" It is well known that Dr . Clark continued for a long" time attached $ o the Arian principles and party , even while he was curate of St . James ' s * This heretical obstinacy rendered him an object of aversion to all true Protestants , while it procured him the
esteem and protection of the late Queen Caroline , who assumed the airs and character of a Free-thinker , ( esprit fort 9 ) to make the world believe that she was wiser than her neighbours . One of her maids of honour
urged by her importunate solicitations to abandon Popery , promised to com * ply with the Queen ' s request , if any one would prove to her that the Word was not God . Upon this , Mr . Hooke was desired to procure a conference
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1826, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2548/page/21/
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