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    intercourse , without increasing its follies , or its vices , materially adds to the sum of human happiness ; and that the happiness of social life is promoted more , by regular though minute exertions , thai * by the greatest irregular efforts . The

    benighted traveller receives more assistance from the faint , but constant light of the stars , than from the most brilliant corruscations of the meteor- Indeed it requires but the will to make

    every individual the benefactor of every individual around him . [ To be concluded in our next . ]

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    ORIGINAL LETTERS OF THE REV . S . BOURNE , OF BTRMFNGHAM , AND THE REV . I > R . DOD 0 RIDGE . £ This , with two otfcer original Letters © f Mr Bourne ' s , and one original Letter of Dr . Doddr « dge * s , we have been favoured with by a Correspondent , into whose hands they came , with o * her paper * of one of the descendants of Mr . Bourne . The Letter with which we now present our readers opened the correspondence ; Dr . Doddrd ^ e ' s Reply will appear in our nexr number In the two succeeding numbers we shall insert the two remaining Letters of Mr . Bourne Dr . Boddridge ' s second Letter is , we fear , lost : if hy means of any of our Cor espond * ents we could recover it , we should esteem it a valuable cu / iosity . Ebjltok . \

    NO . I , To the Rev , Dr . Doddridge * rev , sir , Ff £ > . 1739-4 O . It was very late before the first part of your Family Exposi- * tor of the Gospels came to hand ; and since 1 had it , a slow fever , which took me off my public work two or three Lord ' sdays , hindered also my private reading : I have now , however ^ gone through your book , which is an elaborate piece ^ and has annexed many judicious and useful criticisms ; though , whether the harmonising way be so instructive and acceptable to farm ** lies , as to have taken the Gospels in the order ia which they Ii $

    m the Bible , I am in doubt * But the passage which appears to me the most except ion able , and which is tfre occasion of this address , is your note on John i . 1 . Your Paraphrase might have shifted for itself pretty wellwhere you acknowledge the \ tyyos to be a Person ^ the subject of perfection , and a medium ( or mediator ) of manifestation to

    us , that h $ was with tfae Father , that he was by generation God , and by union also ( with , I suppose , thje Father ) . The several parts of this Paraphrase would , I think , lead ark attentive ^ learne < i jre& ^ et i nto an idea of the Xoya * as a Bei rj g ( not co-ordiqate or equal to God , the Father , the only sell - « iste « t uftoriginated , ab 9 Q ) wt ? Iy supreme an 4 ind pendent

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    Bev . S . Bourne and Dr . Doddttdgei 293

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 293, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/13/