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    your defence should be deposited in the royal library : my own opinion of it I will not obtrude here : for what weight will it have with yott ? I wish to spend the remainder of life in peace , but I greatly pity you , who layout your good abilities and uncommon learning in

    derogating from the dignity of our Saviour . The matter I know appears in another light to you . But I wish you to reflect that in studies of this nature , your eternal salvation is at stake , the loss of which I think is the most

    dreadful of ail evils . In my own orthodox opinion , I will be fixed and constant unto death : yet I will neither quairel with others nor engage in disputation , 1 am so certain of the truth of my religious views , that no sophistical objection , nor change of the

    sacred text can pluck th ^ persuasion out of my mind . " In a third letter , he writes : " I have always loved you , and it is with great reluctance that I differ in opinion ^ on the most important points , from so moderate and good a man . 1 wish that such a man

    as you an ^ were our side . It will , perhaps , be so in the end ; which I fervently pray to God may be very soon . This will be

    a spring of joy in heaven , and with all your friends , amongst whom I may : with reason , claim almost the first place . " In a letter to Mosheim , dated the 6 th of the nones of October , 1718 , La

    Croze speaks of Crellius , " as a man , than whom , if you except his incurable heresy , there is no one better , or more serious : * ' adding that he sometimes came from his retreat to Berlin and visited him . It seems probable ^ that Crellj-

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    us ' s chief support arose from the copy monies , which he honourably received from the booksellers , for his writings , whifch gained him a great name , and procured him the

    rank of a professor among the Socinians . All the works he published are entitled , by the learning and literary application they display , to great praise . He died at Amsterdam , 1747 , on the 12 th

    of May , in the 87 th year of his age . In a publication , on literary intelligence , at Hamburg , 1111747 , it is said , that about t ^ e close of life he repented of his errors , and gave plain proofs of the sincerity of

    this repentance . In the same literary intelligencer , in 1748 , Paul Burger , farchdeacon of Herspruck , expressed his thoughts of the probability of the truth of this , because when Jie lived at Amsterdam , in 1731 , he declared to him that in

    some conversations with the cele * brated Schaaffius , at Lyons , he was led to doubt on some points , and that he was still unsettled in his judgment on them . But in the same public prints , of 1749 , we are Svith more certainty , informed that Crellius continued an

    Unitarian to his last breath ; which his brother Paul told m , e before many persons . It was in vain , therefore , that Aletophilus Tacitus , who is the s&me with Richter , the physician , endeavoured to

    claim Crellius , as one of the sect of Herrenhuthans : though we can readily admit that , for eleven years j as the same Richter reports , he was acquainted with , and

    conversed with the Herrenhuthans , and for the last two years of his life outwardly joined their assembly and heard their public sermons . Stoschius in his history of the eighteenth century .

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    52 A Memoir of Samuel Crcllius * w .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/4/