372 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



humbly conceive, full enough. 1 here enclose 

 a copy of it for the perusal of your Grace, and 

 of as many others as your Grace shall think fit 

 to shew it to. 



" I send this declaration unsigned, because 

 we who were present desired first to have the 

 opinions of your Grace and others who were 

 absent, and should be glad to know whether 

 you would have any thing added to it, or altered 

 in it, for we affect not the vanity of dogmatiz- 

 ing. I hope for your Grace's speedy answer 

 (to-morrow, if it may be), because the evil 

 grows, and we have heard of more odd books 

 and sermons since we met, and of an increase 

 of the scrupulous. And your Grace well knows, 

 that the more timely the check is given, the 

 likelier it is (through God's blessing) to have a 

 good effect. I commend this weighty affair to 

 your Grace's most serious consideration, and 

 yourself to the protection of the great Shepherd 

 of souls, and remain, my Lord, 



*' Your most affectionate brother, 

 ** Canterbury." 



*' A Declaration, &c. [The title is not yet 

 agreed on.] 



*' Forasmuch as sundry persons have of late 

 by their preaching, writing, and discourses, 

 possessed the minds of many people with doubts 



