1800.] Letter from Dr. Doddridge—Letter from Arch. Wake. 
LETTER II. 
Northampton, Nov. 3, 1746. 
DEAR SIR, Rie 
I AM heartily thankful for your’s. I 
hope that God will direét you, and pray 
that he may doit. I really look on your 
prudence as fuperior to my own; and [ 
alfo think you, in this cafe, more tho- 
roughly mafter of the circumftinces on 
both fides. But I verily believe that your 
miniftry in Southwark will be efteemed 
and fupported. 
I take it peculiarly kind that you men- 
tion the fuppofed inconfftency in my ac- 
count of Col. Gardiner’s converfion: the 
hiftory of which I have been writing this 
day. It is certain that he himfelf afcrib- 
ed it to a fuppofed vifion, which I ra- 
ther think to have been an extraordinary 
dream, and therefore might fay, it was 
owing to no external caufe; by which 
word, if I ufed it after I knew the whole 
fiory, I muft mean, that it was occafioned 
by no affliétion, admonition, deliverance, 
fermon, or the like, but purely an im- 
preffion made on his mind, when alone. 
And, indeed, if ] had imagined it to be 
really as he thought it, a vifion, I fhould 
have fuppofed there had been no external 
archetype, but merely an extraordinary 
operation on the mind, or at mott on the 
fenforium ; which I take to have been the 
cafe of St. John in the Revelations, and of 
the prophets in all their vifions. I fay, 
Sir, it is poffible I might have fpoke in 
fuch a manner of his cafe, had I circum- 
{tantially known it; butas I do not exactly 
recollect when Mr. Hampton* was or- 
dained, it is very poffible it might have 
been before I knew the moft extraordinary 
part of tlie ftory, which was not till many 
months after our acquaintance commenced: 
till when I only nad heard from his own 
mouth, that the occafion of his conver- 
fion was fome very affecting view of 
Chrif? crucified, which he had in his fecret 
retirement; which was moft certainly 
true, though not the whole truth, and it 
might not have been prudent either for 
him or for me to have declared it every 
where. Though on the whole I have 
thought it my duty, for the honour of the 
grace of God, which feems here fo fig- 
nally difplayed, to record the whole frory 
at large in his lite; which, having very 

* Mr. George Hampton was born at 
Wrexham, in Denbighthire, educated at 
Glafgow, and many vears minifter of a pref- 
ey congregation at Banbury, Oxtford- 
ire. 
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lately received the materials from : Scot 
land, I am now beginning to write: and 
I recommend the attempt to your prayers, 
as I do all my other labours, my dear and 
honoured friend. 
As for your fucceffor, if you leave 
Whitney, I agree with my goed friend, 
that he muft ufe caution in advifing. 
What, if Mr. Carer fhould be mentioned, 
in cafe Mr. Holland, who is jult engaged 
to affift Mr. Southwell, at Wolverhamp- 
ton, fhould aot be thought, in thefe cir- 
cumftances, proper to be applied to? 
I have but one complaint to make of 
you, dear Sir, and that Iwill make to you. 
You write to me, as if there were fome 
fuperiority on my fide. In years there 
may be a little; and I have alfo a diplo- 
ma, which makes me not one jot a wifer 
or better man than I fhould be without it, 
Many good things I am fure you are ca- 
pable of teaching me, both by your con- 
verfation and example; and J with I were 
nearer you, that I might have more op- 
portunity of learnimg them. I can truly 
fay, the more I have known of you the 
more I have efteemed you, and the more 
inclinable I have been, not inempty forms 
and unmeaning compliments, but in good 
earn<ft, to prefer you in honour to myfelf, 
Let us converfe and love as brethren. Let 
us pray for each other. I hope God will 
gracioufly hear us both, and that, how- 
ever we may be feparated on earth, will 
join us in our Father’s houfe above. I 
fhall expect a vifit from you, if God {pare 
our life till fummer; and if you go to 
London, I fhall ufe you as a friend, in 
afking your fervices on any occafion juft 
as freely as I would have you afk mine, 
and further I will not go. My wife, who 
is much better than fhe was, prefents her 
humble fervice to you. Iam, dear Sir, 
Your's, &c. 
P, DoppriDGE. 
P. §. Why did you pay the poftage? Do 
you really think I do not efteem your letters 
and friendthip far beyond fucha trifle ? If not, 
I hope time will make me better known toyou. 

A LETTER from ARCHBISHOP WAKE fo 
the Rev. THOMAS BRADBURY. 
SIR, Croydon, Sept. 5, 172%. 
HAD laft night the favour of your's 
from Blandford, the place of my ‘birth. 
You. are now in Exeter, where I {pent 
fome few years the fummer feafon, whilft 
I was dean of that church. I doubr, if 
you continue your refolution of leaving 
that city on Friday, this will {carce come 
; ez to 
