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The Life Of Bishop Warburton.
on the subject in an admirable book entitled ' Julian . ' This work was published in 1750 , and is written in the genuine spirit of its author . In the next year he appeared again as a critic and commentator , in the noble edition he gave of Mr . Pope ' s works . AVhen Mr . Pope ' s volumes were out of" his hands , he published a
set of sermons preached by him at Liucoln ' s-lnn , and entitled ' Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion , ' in two vols , the former published in 1752 , and the other in 1754 ; to which he added a third in . 767 , consisting chiefly of occasional discourses . We find it impossible , without encroaching on other articles , to finish this important Biography in this number , but will , most assuredly , conclude it in our next .
Original Letter Of Bishop Burnet.
ORIGINAL LETTER OF BISHOP BURNET .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE . THE orig inal Manuscript Letter ,- of which I here send you a fjithful copy , is in the College Library of St . Peter , Westminsterami as 110 transcript of it has ever before appearedyour
, , readers will , n ' o doubt , receive it with pleasure . It is from Bishop Burnet to Mrs . Lightmaker , in 168 4 , upon the death of her brother Dr . Leighton , Archbishop of Glasgow ;* D . ' MADAM , ' It is a very uneasy thing to me to write to 3-011 on so sad a
subject , as vour losing the best brother and my own losing the best friend I . ever had ; of whom 1 must say this , that I could never yet say of any mortal , that , during a friendship of 22 \ ears , 1 never saw him one moment iu arry other temper but that in which . ! would wish to be in the moment of my death . ' He was the brig htest and most shining light I ever saw , or ever
hope to see . But Ire is now much brighter , and we shall see him ere long , and , I hope , share with him in his glory . He was weary of his journey , and groaning for rest , and now God has delivered him . There is nothing left us but to acquiesce in the good and holy will of God , and to follow him . ' 1 confess his losse to myself is as the losse of a right eye , or a right hand ; and I can easily apprehend how sensible it must be to you ; and nothing can so justly mitigate so sharpe a stroke as the
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The Life Of Bishop Warburton.
on the subject in an admirable book entitled ' Julian . ' This work was published in 1750 , and is written in the genuine spirit of its author . In the next year he appeared again as a critic and commentator , in the noble edition he gave of Mr . Pope ' s works . AVhen Mr . Pope ' s volumes were out of" his hands , he published a
set of sermons preached by him at Liucoln ' s-lnn , and entitled ' Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion , ' in two vols , the former published in 1752 , and the other in 1754 ; to which he added a third in . 767 , consisting chiefly of occasional discourses . We find it impossible , without encroaching on other articles , to finish this important Biography in this number , but will , most assuredly , conclude it in our next .
Original Letter Of Bishop Burnet.
ORIGINAL LETTER OF BISHOP BURNET .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE . THE orig inal Manuscript Letter ,- of which I here send you a fjithful copy , is in the College Library of St . Peter , Westminsterami as 110 transcript of it has ever before appearedyour
, , readers will , n ' o doubt , receive it with pleasure . It is from Bishop Burnet to Mrs . Lightmaker , in 168 4 , upon the death of her brother Dr . Leighton , Archbishop of Glasgow ;* D . ' MADAM , ' It is a very uneasy thing to me to write to 3-011 on so sad a
subject , as vour losing the best brother and my own losing the best friend I . ever had ; of whom 1 must say this , that I could never yet say of any mortal , that , during a friendship of 22 \ ears , 1 never saw him one moment iu arry other temper but that in which . ! would wish to be in the moment of my death . ' He was the brig htest and most shining light I ever saw , or ever
hope to see . But Ire is now much brighter , and we shall see him ere long , and , I hope , share with him in his glory . He was weary of his journey , and groaning for rest , and now God has delivered him . There is nothing left us but to acquiesce in the good and holy will of God , and to follow him . ' 1 confess his losse to myself is as the losse of a right eye , or a right hand ; and I can easily apprehend how sensible it must be to you ; and nothing can so justly mitigate so sharpe a stroke as the