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    By circulating : the best dehortations against war , Law ' s Reflections , the Treatise of Erasmus translated by Knox , "Warner ' s Sermon , Sec . &x . by short extracts dispersed in every public ? place ,

    by .-ong > a / ul hynvns , by pictures of battUs and warlike instruments with their effects , by letter ^ fiom the Friends to every potentate and to every statesman ill the woi lei , &zc . Sac . Now let them laugh . Were but the French emperor and all his royal competitors and their ministers Quaker , , pray iiow far should

    we be from the ejid of , our journey ? How romantic and ridicu : ous , may some urge , is the idea ! Be it so . It is not impossible ; and what is not done now , may be effected in some future time , and sooner than cold blooded and apathetic selfishness may imagine . I only

    aay , go on , and the period will come , when in the noblest and best sense , as applied to' universal reformation , peace , righteousness , benevolence and religion , men may sing , Glory to Cod in the highest , * n ezTth peace i good ivill among the children < tf men . Believe me to be , &c . J . H .

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    MR . TlillELKELD AND BISHOP SANDERSON COMPARED .

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    silly London 9 Oct . Q 1 SOS . 1 was much entertained with your " Memoirs of the Rev . T .

    Threlkeld , " ( from Dr . Barnes ' s funeral discourse , ) in the Monthly Hi'posit ory ^ vol . ii . p . 169 ; and am fully persuaded that you cannot take a surer method to make

    your work interesting and popular than by continuing to insert in it frequently , authentic biographical accounts . Mr , Threlkeld ' s character reminded me of that of Dr . San ~

    denton , Hisliop * ofr Lincoln , as portrayed by the . lively pencil o \ Laac Walton , woo in the eighty fifth year of Jiis age , drew up the

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    P . S . I wish that Clarkso ^ s thought * on this subject at the beginning of fits third volume of his Portraiture of Qua ^ - kerism might be printed again and againy in every honest newspaper and magazine , in evtry part- of the world . Then a place micht be found for the lover of peace . —But though I would have

    us all be enthusiastic at heart in this noble catisc , any peculiar or singular en * thusiasm of manner may defer the designed effect . Innocent hoi \ est conformity to the world ' s modes , giv-es strength and spring , nnd influence to any good cause . They who are too sanguine in their expectations often too soon despair .

    Sensibility too is a lovely and graceful affection , but it should not be entirely and always cherished like the sensitive plant : it should be fitted for common life , and the ways of the world , and he

    capable of enduring the open air . It should be foundctl on reason , graced with virtue , regulated by prudence , and confirmed by religion .

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    memoir of his departed friend . Between the Hibhop and Mr . T . there were several singular coincidences ; both possessed a great and wonderful memory ; both

    disused their memory in preaching ; both were extremely fond of heraldry ; and both were bashful to a fault . The memoirs of I \ ii \ r 'i ) re 1 k e 1 cl a re f res h in your readers * recollection , or may be readily referred to ; the life of the Bishop

    is less known ; I shall therefore make a few extracts from it ^ which to some of them probably may be new . * At th # taking of his degree of Batchelor of Aits , his Tutor * told the

    * Dr . K \ rb \ ey Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford , and one of the translator * ( by James ' s appointment ) of the common version of the Bible .

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    -590 Mr . Thnlkeld and Bishop ' Sanderson compared

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1808, page 590, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2398/page/14/