130 Original Letter of Bifbop Warburton. [Marxch 
His infirmities increasing, the bishop holy orders, a plan for the regulation of 
undertook a journey to Bath, for the his studies in divinity: and if I shall see, 
benefit of his health, intending, on his ‘by its insertion im your next month’s 
recovery, to have published another yo-. Magazine, that it has proved an ac~, 
lume of Sermons. On the road, how- ceptable communication, I will then send 
ever, he was scized with a paralytic you a copy of another letter from the, 
stroke, and departed this life onthe 17th same learned writer, to the same young 
of January, 1792, in perfeét tranquillity person, after he had taken orders, and 
of mind. © in continuation of the same subje@.—l 
This learned and amiable prelate, filled shall transcribe them literally 5 with ex- 
with propriety, every situation to which aétly the same spelling, capital letters, 
he gradually rose. His heart seemed and points, as I find in the originals. 
fully bent on doing good to the utmost of The Bishop’s charaéter for knowledge, 
his power. His sermons may be consi- and literature, is too well established to 
dered as an index of his mind, presenting suffer diminution from these trifling 
an unaffected display of real knowledge, slips of a hasty pen, in the ease and free- 
and holding out religion m the most in- dom of a private correspondence.— The 
viting and agreeable point of view. originals I received from the executor of 
The topics of his discourses were ge- the gentleman to whom they were writ- 
nerally interesting, andthe historical ones ten, who lately died, at an advanced age, 
particularly so. From his copious com- Reétor of Hardingham in Norfolk; and 
mon-place book, itappears, thatthebishop was himself eminent for learning, and 
took considerable pains to colleét the most for several valuable translations from the 
acceptable information for his hearers,, original Hebrew of the Old Testament. 
the best adapted subje€ts for conversation, | Afarch 20, 1796. BIBLICUS. 
and matter the most likely to influence E ‘ 
the charaéter of young eee ae Newarke, sepe 2(a" 
may be added, as an honourable traitin  s!R, ; 
the charaéter of this good man, that on ¢ T REC4¢ yours of the 23d instant. You 
his advancement to the see of Norwich, need make no apology for it. For 
he resigned his deanery of Canterbury; you can engage my efteem no way fo 
and it is recorded, that he has not accu- certainly as by manifefting your inclina- 
mulated any fortune from his various lu- tion to Learning, your difpefition to feek 
crative employments, in the church and for truth, and your defire of qualifying 
university. your {elfe for the profefflion you are de- 
He lett behind him, a widow, the figned for. 
daughter of Philip Burton, Esq. of El- € The Hebrew will be extream useful 
cham, and three daughters, the eldest of “to you for a critical knowledge of the 
whom is married to the Rev. Selby Hale, old Testament & of advantage for un- 
@ respectable clergyman in Bedfordshire. derstanding the language of the New. q 
Lisra. should recommend to your Leusden’s 
Ee Hebrew Bible as the most commodious 
ORIGINAL LETTER. for you. if you propose to set upon the 
language while you reside in Cambridge 
I suppose you will have a Master who 
SIR will give you dire€tions in the Elements 
iA PPROVING, as I do, of the plan of the tongue. If you do not, but intend 
3 of your Monthly Publication, I to study 1t without, you will find the 
éannot but wish that it may mect that best dire€tions in Le Clerk’s Ars Critica. 
success, which may, atthe same time, Buta Grammar of Buxtorf, and Bithner’s 
answer your most sanguine expectations, Lyra will be sufficient., 
and furnish literary and _ philosophical ‘In reading the New Testamt you 
men with a conyenient repository for would do well to read the: Gospels with: 
fugitive pieces, or posthumous remains, Toinard’s Harmony, and the Epistles of 
and a respectable mode of ready,com- St Paul with Lock, the Revelations with 
munication with .each other, in the Mede & S* Is. Newton, and-ufe Grotius 
course. of their studies and inquiries. & Hammond quite thro’. For a Lexi- 
With a view to its encouragement, I con, Leigh’s Critica Sacra you will find 
now send youa copy of an original letter, very usefull. 
in my possession, of the late celebrated “In reading Modern Theological 
Jo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Bishop Warburton; in which he lays writers you would do well to begin with, - 
down, for the use of his correspondent, Burnet’s de fide & offic: Christ: & 
then a young divine juft entering into Lock’s reasonableness ef Christianity. 
Thea 
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