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    I lately read in Jacob ' s . Poetical Rogisfej" ( 8 vo > 1725 . itlBi *) - fliat after the Restoration , by fLe lenity of King Charles II . Miltpni was suffered to keep a scltool at Greenwich /* This biographical collector , as is too common , gives no authorities . Should any ofyoqr readers have met with such a passage elsewhere , I shall thank them to communicate it . It must ha \ e been unknown to Toland who wrote

    the life prefixed to the edition of Milton above quoted . Bishop Newtoo makes no mention of such a circumstance ; nor Jphnson whore , marks a kind of respect is , perhaps uaconsciously ^ pai 3 to this great man by his biographers : every house in which he resides is historically mentioned , as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that h& honoured by his presence . " The story appears also inconsistent with the accounts which Mr . Hayley has collected * I am , Sir yours ^ Jme 7 % 1807 . . MILTONtUS . V .

    To the Editor of the Monthly ^ Repository . Sib ^

    1 am a constant reader of your valuable' and well conducted JRe-| K > sitory , and trust that as it is the only liberal periodical work for theological discussion , its merits will be truly appreciated by the friends of truth and free inquiry . Under that division of your wort Styled ^ u The Inquirer , ' I beg by your permission to state , that though

    1 am somewhat advanced in years and have been brought up ia the "belief af orthodox opinionsy I have upon mature reflection embraced the Unitarian doctrines , being fuliy convinced that they are the genuine doctrines of the New Testament . I have read the works of many of your most approved authors with great satisfaction , and I trust -with some improvement . I have lately met with the Critical Dissertations" of the late Rev . Newcome Cappe . oMfork . a work which

    I think has great claims to attention for the originality of the thinking 7 learning and patience of research which it discovers ; and the person who can without emotion read the Memoir" prefixed by his pious and affectionate widoifc > must have a heart made of very different materials from mine .

    The dissertations on the cc Proem of Jolin / ' the " Idea jof Ju--daism / ' the " Discourse with Nicodemus / ' &c . &c , excel , as I think , all that I have hitherto seen 041 these subjects ^ and I caxmot but express my astonishment ., that they are so little known , or $ 0 little w ~ iiCcd by learned Unitarians . I confess nay self not sufficiently qualified to judge of their merits as a whole ; some of them saay be thought rather tedious or fanciful but I am not critic enough to decide . Thedissertation on the meaning of the terms" Kingdom of God , " &c . appears to throw much new light , not only on the phraseology of scrip-Sure , but also on the mission of Ch rist , its ends an d objects ; ajnd I should " eel much obligcdbyany of your learned or better informed correspou *

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    484 The Inquirer , No . xv .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 484, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/32/