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    MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS. - - - ¦ ¦ r

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    ORIGINAI- 3 LETTERS OF THE REV . S . BOURNE , OF BIRMINQ * HAM / AND THE REV , DR , DODDKIDGE , ' no . n . To the Rev . Mr . Bourne , ( To be left at Mr . Smith ' s , Ironmonger in Birmingham ) . rev . and djear sir , Northampton , Dec . , 17 * f >

    Had the letter which I received from you so many months ago been merely an address of common friendship , I hope no hurry of business would have led me so long to delay the answer which civility and gratitude would in that case have required ; arid had it been , to request any service in my power to you , Sir , or t <* any of your family and friends , I would not willingly Kave neglected it so many days or hours ; but when it contained nothing material , more than an unkind insinuation that you esteemed me a dishonest man , who , out of a design to please a party , had writ what I did not believe , or , as you

    thought fit to express yourself , had u trimmed it a little with the gospel of Christ / 1 I thought all that was necessary , after having fully satisfied my own conscience on that head , which I bless Gocl I very easily did , was to forgive and pray for the mistaken brother who had done me the injury , and to >

    endeayour to forget it , by turning my thoughts to some more pleasant , important , and useful subject . I imagined , Sir , that for % Xie to give it you sunder tny own hand that I meant honestly ¦ yvould signify very little , whether you did or did not believe it

    already ; and as I had little peculiar to say on the doctrines to which you referred , I thought it would be of little use to send you a bare confession of my faith , and quite burdensome to enter into a long detail and examination of arguments which have pn one side and the other been so often discussed

    and with whrch the wofld has of late years been so thoroughly satiated . On this account , Sir , I threw asidq the beginning of a long letter , which I had prepared in answer toyour ' s , and with it your letter itself ; and I . believe I may safely # ay , several weeks and months hav $ passed , in which I have not once recollected to this But

    ^ ny thing relating affair . I h ave since b certainly informed that you , interpreting my silence as an acknowledgment of the justice of your charge , have sent copies of your letter to several of your friends , who have been industrious to

    Miscellaneous Communications. - - - ¦ ¦ R

    MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS . - - - ¦ ¦ r

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 341, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/5/