18 Negleéted Biography—Letter from Dr. Doddridge, &c. { Augutt 1; 
might obje& alfo to fponfors and the fign 
of the crofs in baptifin ; the ab/olution in 
the vifitation of the fick, and that part of 
the burial fervice which pronounces all 
happy when they die (even if they are 
knownto have departed this life with every 
fign of impenitence) provided they bave 
not been excommunicated. _Diffenters 
very properly object to thefe things; but 
the two firft reafons I have mentioned, 
are thofe on whichthey principally ground 
their diffent. Iam, Sir, 
Your's, &c. 
hy Sune 10,1800. PHILALETHES. 

Jo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
AM one who has wifhed very much 
to fee an attention paid to the call of 
Dr. Watkins, on your numerous Corre- 
fpondents, to furnifh articles of NEGLECT- 
ED BIOGRAPHY. Various and preffing 
engagements have, hitherio, prevented 
my meeting this call; but I now offer, 
with two letters of Dr. Doddridge, the 
other articles with this, to exprefs my de- 
fire of affifting Dr. W.’s views. The 
Jetter of A:chbifhop Wake has this ten- 
dency; and the biographical notice of 
Dr. William Harris will be deemed, I 
conceive, directly to the point. I am, 
Your’s, &c. 
J. Toutmin. 
Taunton, 
June 19; 1800. 

Letters from the Rev.DRr. DoppRIDGE, 
to the Rev. JOHN WarD, at Wuit- 
NEY. 
Northampton, Fan. 25, 1746. 
REV. AND DEAR SIR, 
AM much obliged to you for your 
kind Jett er, W hich I lati night received, 
and receiving it then, you a perceive I 
could not anfwer ic by the newiman. I 
have balanced accounts with the gentle- 
men who fupplied Whitney in your ab- 
fence, and tiey return you their thanks 
for your generous conlideration of their 
labours. I entirely acquiefce in the views 
of the congregation at Whitney, which I 
“never meant in any degree to over-rule. 
Lhad no favourite {cheme to carry, and 
intended nothing but to give them the beit 
advice I could, as I had been the inira- 
ment of taking £ from them fo valuable a 
minifter. Mr. Coppleftone is a man for 
whom I have a hearty affection, and I 
doubt not he will take a faithful care of 
their religious interefts, I pray God to 
dire&t and fucceed our friends at Whitney, 
in the application they are making, if it 
may be, as I hope it will, for the advance- 
ment of religion. 
I am glad to hear of any good difpefi- 
tion in thole at the head of affairs, to thew 
any favourable regards to the diffenters. 
I verily believe there are thofe in the 
Royal Family who are under fome deep 
impreffions of true religion, and particu- 
larly the Princefs of Wales and the Prin- 
cefs Carolina: and if I am not much 
mifinformed, his Majelty bimfelf has dif- 
covered more of that kind of late, than 
had ever before been obferved. The 
more religion prevails, the more, I think, 
there will be a difpofition to favour us. 
And I muft add, the more they are ac- 
quainted with their own intereft, the more 
ready will they be to put their mof ap- 
proved and aflured friends into a capacity, 
ot doing them fervice. 
Now I am writing to you, I cannot 
forbear mentioning the pleafure I have juft 
now received from Mr. Welt’s book on 
the Reiurre&tion of Chrift, and which 
gives an account of the thing incompar- 
ably more fatista&tery, than I have ever 
before met with; which fuppofes two 
companies of women to have come to the 
fepulchre and Peter to have vilited, it 
twice. In mof other oa it agrees 
with my Harmony ; where there are fome 
of the fame obfervations, and fome of the 
verfions he would recommend. I look 
upon it as a very confiderable piece of 
fervice done to Chriftianity ; and, I thank 
God, he has put it into the mind of one, 
who, -not being a minifier, may be heard 
with lefs prejudice; and who, I believe, 
himfelt was once rather difpofed to oppofe 
Chriftianity than to defend it. Nor is 
this the only infance I have lately met 
with, of the conquefts which the. evi- 
dences of Chriitianity have made; and I 
hope of the power of it on thofe who 
were once greatly prejudiced againft it. 
I hope we fhall thank God for every thing 
that appears of this kind, and pray and 
labour that more and more of it may pre- 
vail. My wife joins in her beft fervices 
and beft wifhes with mine. It will always 
be a pleafure to hear of you, and I fhall 
make no icruple when I know how to 
direct to you at London, to write to you 
on any occafion, and give you any little 
trouble which my own affairs may invite 
me to give you; for T have great confi- 
dence in your fr iendfhip, as well asa high 
efieem for it. Iam, your's, &c. 
P, DoppRiIDGE. 
LETTER 
