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duty inexpreffible ; and I hope your Lord- 
fhip will diftinguifh, that fhe foops not to 
the modern mercenary motives of poetic 
application. 
<* You. may perhaps confefs the art 
deferving of your patronage, when it 
fhall be made appear, that a propriety in 
its exercife mult infallibly, fome few years 
hence, entitle to an annual profit of above 
a million. 
Jy overbearing the pretenfions of a private 
perfon: of-this I am fo juftly fenfible, 
that T only aim to hold it till its extent and 
benefit, acknowledged publicly, fhall ren- 
der it an offering worthy of that duty I 
fhall owe to your dire@ions. 
<¢ But infant arts, how promifing fo- 
ever, are like infant trees, incapable of 
thriving, but by due protection. 
«¢ Stranger to your perfon, fhall I hope 
this bleffing from your power? or, rather, 
fhall I be forgiven if I doubtit? Our 
age has no Mecznas, if we mifs hirn in 
your charaéter; and the merit, which is 
perfonally wanting, will be found in my 
difcovery. Youare too true a patriot to 
think a public good unworthy your en- 
couragement. Might I, by your Lord- 
fhip"s introduction, prefent her Majefty a 
{pecimen of this oil, this new increafe of 
her country’s value, the honour of the 
royal notice would greatly influence to my 
advantage ; and I fhall be more than hap- 
py, if fome future moment calls upon my 
foul to prove I can deferve this favour at 
your Lordfhip’s hands. 
That I prefume to throw myfelf thus 
freely on your noble nature, may convince 
your Lordfhip that I. know it rightly; 
and your dilcerning foul infpires too ge- 
nerous fentiments to let me fear your lift- 
ening favourably to a fuit, which cannot, 
tho’ I want the honour of your know- 
ledge, be improperly addreffed, fince the 
ftation you adorn has given you the fame 
fuperiority in power and diftinGtion, which 
you naturally held) in wifdom and huma- - 
mitye *: 
If your Lordthip hall, in fome unbend- 
ing hour, be pleafed to fummon an atten- 
dance, which I prefume’ not to obtrude 
amicft a crowded levy, and the general 
Importance of your moments, I fhall, 
with a heart full of gratitude, add a per- 
fonal reverence to the prefent diftant vene- 
ration of, my Lord, your Lordfhip’s 
“© Moft obedient and moft devoted 
-«¢ Servant, 
“* Gt. Ruffell-_fireet, ‘** AaRoNn HILL.” 
Ap aay tyke 
Original Letters. 
But you willjudge it infinite- | 
{May lb 
A LETTER from DR. SECKER, on” being 
made BLSHOP of BRISTOL, fo MR.FOX™» 
of PLYMOUTH. 
SIR; May 8, 1736 
I return you my hearty thanks for the 
congratulations you have made me in fo 
obliging a manner, and for your friendly 
expreffions of good will and good opinion, 
which I place a high value upon, as they 
come froma perfon, whofe franknefs and 
fincerity I remember very well, and efteem 
very truly. I hope your private manner 
of life has been free from any great unea- 
finefs; and 1 affure you the more public one 
which I lead has no gfeat fatisfaction in 
it. Jendeavour to think as juftly, and to 
aét as rightly, as I can. Ido my belt to 
do no harm in the world, and it is not ea- 
fy to do much good ; every one in his 
ftation, however, fhould try. And, [hopes 
the experience I have had of the world has 
tended to ftrengthen in me one difpofition 
very neceflary to this end; a difpofition to 
think reafonably and mildly of all men, 
and to refpeét and honour all good and 
virtuous men; from which principle, I 
am, with fincere regard, Sir, 
~ Your affectionate humble fervant, 
THomas BRIisTOL. 
Extraéts of a Letter of the Rev. PETER 
PecKarp, afterwards Dean of Peterbo- 
rough, to the Rev. Pauxt CARDALE, of 
Evefham, Author of the Trac New Tefta- 
ment Doétrine of Fefus Chrifi, in Anfwer to a 
Letter from Mr. Cardale, 1767, Auguft 
17, in which he had given his Senfe of 
fome Scripture Pafflages in Phil. ii. in Co- 
loffians, in Hebrews, and relative to the 
fubjeé&t of his book. 
Accept, dear Sir, of my fincereft thanks 
for your very obliging letter, dated Aug. 
17. You are fo kind as to defire to hear 
from me, and I cannot deny myfelf the 
pleafure. I am not able at prefent to en- 
ter particularly into the fubject; but, in 
general, I can give you this fatisfaétion, 
that Ide not at prefent fee, but that the 
parts of Scripture in queftion may reafon- 
ably admit of your interpretation. At 
leaft, it feems to me fo fair, candid, and 
conclufive, that I fhall never any more 
maintain what has hitherto appeared to 
me the doétrine of the Scripture, though I 
have always thought it attended with great 
* This gentleman was a fellow-ftudent 
with Dr. Secker, under Mr. Eames, who was 
at the head of a diflenting academy, in Lon- 
don, 
difficulties. 
