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up. After he had presented Sir Robert's and 

 my lady's service to me, he asked me whether I 

 had not received a book yesterday, which was 

 sent me, viz. ' Mr, Toland's defence of himself ' I 

 told him ' I had.' He then told me that ' he was 

 the man (for I had never seen him before). Upon 

 this we fell a talking about his books and prin- 

 ciples. I dealt very freely with him as to both. 

 He owned he had been to blame ; and that he had 

 begun to write very young, before he rightly under- 

 stood things. He promised he would trouble the 

 world no more about those matters. As for the 

 charge of his denying the Trinity, he declared 

 that he was so far from that, that he would subscribe 

 all the doctrinal articles of the Church of England. 

 I asked him whether he would subscribe the first 

 article (that which declares the Trinity), alone. 

 He answered, * Yes, ej? animo.' I told him, I 

 would, as I had occasion, do him right as to 

 that matter. But I said, he had, by his books 

 and carriage, given so great offence to the Church 

 of England, that he could never expect but 

 endeavours would be used to censure him. He 

 told me, upon that, he did not mean to stay here, 

 for he was going very suddenly to the Princess Sophia 

 of Hanover. He then told me, that the last time 

 he was there he presented her with one of my 

 sermons, and one of Dr. Tillotson's about the 

 government of the tongue (as mine was about the 



