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removed from Berlin into Holland), that the 

 correspondence was afterwards carried on be- 

 tween Dr. Jablouski and the Archbishop of 

 York ; which coiTcspondence took its rise from 

 the following occasion. The King, in 1710, 

 thought proper, by way of experiment, to give 

 orders to his divines to draw up their thoughts 

 separately, upon a model of a worship and dis- 

 cipline to be established. Among the rest, Dr. 

 Jablouski drew up his, with a great deal of 

 prudence, modesty, and candour. He avoided 

 in it the recommendation of the Church of Eng- 

 land in particular, as judging that not so sea- 

 sonable at that juncture, especially as he lay 

 under the imputation of being too much a friend 

 to it. Nor did he as yet treat of Church govern- 

 ment, because he thought it was yet too hard a 

 saying for them, and besides, he conceived that 

 the Liturgy, once established, would of course 

 bring on the discipline. This judgment of his 

 he delivered to Baron Printz, President of the 

 Council of Ecclesiastical Affairs at Berlin, on 

 June 25, 1710. It was rendered from high 

 Dutch into English, and by way of preface to 

 Mr. Chamberlain's translation of the Neufchatel 

 Liturgy, printed at London, 1712*. In settling 



* This little tract, although it has been in print some years, 

 is nevertheless put in the Appendix, not only on account of its 

 relation to other papers therein collected, and the light it throws 



