190 LIFE AND COKRESrONDENCE OF THE V^l'^^ 



Page 15. "Son" of the Church maybe made "member," and I had 

 no more idea of excluding the "daughters" of the Church, than 1 have 

 every Sunday, when I say '■'Dearly beloved brethren^ Something may 

 be added, in a few words, in acknowledgment to the Church of Ireland, 

 for the office adopted from her. You will know where to insert it. 



I hope, now, my good Sir, we have wholly done; and it will ever 

 give me pleasure to testify the great satisfaction I have had in the pro- 

 gress of this laborious work, and how much it hath been made easy to 

 me (amidst the avocations I have had, and my distance from the press) 

 by the candor and judgment which you have shown, the punctuality of 

 your correspondence, and the great pains you have taken in digesting, 

 transcribing, examining, correcting the press, etc., etc. 



I wish to know whether Mr. Hall's calculation of the price of his 

 work and paper was not on twenty sheets, and whether there will be 

 any addition to the price on his account? Or on the bookbinder's? If 

 none the only additional price will be the engraving and printing the 

 tunes. You know it is part of our appointment to fix the price of the 

 book, direct the distribution thereof, take care that it be sold only for 

 money and the profits applied to the widows and fatherless. I cannot 

 think a dollar will be too much. Had we suffered any printer here to 

 do it on his own account, he would have asked a much greater price. 

 You know what they charged for small imported Prayer Books, and the 

 very smallest School Books. Yet for the reasons you suggest, I wish it 

 to be as cheap as possible, so as to have some savings; for you may be 

 assured that there will be money lost, or with great difiiculty col- 

 lected out of the hands of some to whom the books may be sent for 

 distribution or sale. 



I had almost forgotten your objection to — 



" The spoil of armies once their dread," 



as applied to the Ascension. You know it is Tate and Brady's, and 

 hath long stood among our psalms, but is easily altered thus, which I 

 think will bring it nearer to the evangelical sense as well as sublimity 

 of the original, which is Psalm 68, v. 18 : 



In triumph, Thou, ascending high, 



WcCiX. gifts received for sinful men, 

 An i captive led captivity, 



That God may dwell on earth again ! 



This I think will be very proper for the Ascension. 



I have preserved and endorsed all your letters, and wish you to do 

 the same with mine. They may refresh our memories at some future 



