hend, are angry with Mr. Chandler for an expression he used in the second visit. When urging the expediency of expressing the articles in scripture words, he said, it was for others, not himself, he suggested this, his conscience not being disturbed by them as they now stood, for he freely owned himself a moderate Calvinist.

The sermons I send you I say nothing of; they are the fruit of serious labour; but had it not been for the assistance of my friends, they could not have been published now, if ever; my late and present affliction and trouble, by my brother's death in no good circumstances, having taken up so much of my time, and filled my mind with so much perplexity; but I thank God I am well, and do long and desire to be useful. Mrs. Barker joins with me in sincere and tender respects to you and Mrs. Doddridge. My best wishes always attend you.

I am most affectionately yours,

JOHN BARKER.

FROM THE REV. DAVID LONGUEVILLE.

Amsterdam, Feb. 10, 1748.

MY DEAR AND MUCH ESTEEMED FRIEND, YOUR loving and faithful Address to us here has met with uncommon acceptance, and has been warmly recommended from the pulpit by several of the Dutch ministers; and Mr. Tinon says, that he does not remember that for many years there has been such a large demand for a small treatise of any kind.*

* "I wrote two letters to the Protestant inhabitants of the Low Countries upon the extraordinary crisis in their affairs. These letters were translated into the Low Dutch, and dispersed, especially the former, with some good effect, but they were never printed in English; and, I think, that only the first was translated into French."-Dr. Doddridge's Letter to Mr. Willbaum.

Though the Address was subscribed A. B. yet it is now generally known to have been written by Dr. Doddridge; and, indeed, I never scrupled acknowledging who the author was. One of the French ministers of this city has translated it into French, with the addition of a large marginal note tacked to the advertisement; this note is taken out of your letter to me which recommended the address to my perusal; there are expressions in it so tender and affecting, that I could not help desiring they might be inserted in the French edition, though this did not present itself to my mind till it was too late for the Dutch edition.

Mr. Tinon, after assurances of his most sincere and honourable respects, presents you with the Low Dutch edition of your Treatise upon the Rise and Progress, &c. with one copy of the Dutch, and twelve copies of the French edition of your Address. He desires me to acquaint you, that your Sermons on the Power and Grace of Christ are sent to the press; and as these gentlemen are resolved to give a Dutch edition of all your small treatises and sermons, he therefore desires you would send him all those sermons and small treatises which you would desire to have translated into Low Dutch, and to intimate in what order you would have them published.

I am sorry there are still such vipers in my country; but you know, my dear friend, all they are fit for is only to bite; and I am glad your Divine Master, after he has qualified you for the post, honours you by singling you out to espouse the cause of piety and practical Christianity. Be not discouraged, you have many engaged on your side: keep your eye attentively fixed upon that encouraging promise, which you judiciously made choice of as the subject to direct your meditations upon the death of that eminent Saint of God, Colonel Gardiner, "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life." These excellent and useful Memoirs were published in the Low Dutch, at Rot

terdam, before I received your generous present of that book, for which I owe you I know not how many thanks.

My kindest services to your good lady; and after recommending you both, and your dear children, to the covenant mercies of a covenant keeping God, I remain, with the deepest sincerity,

Your faithful Friend and humble Servant,

DAVID LONGUEVILLE.

FROM THE BISHOP OF WORCESTER.*

REV. SIR,

Spring Gardens, Feb. 25, 1748. I TAKE this first opportunity to return my best thanks for your very obliging letter (though, indeed, my hands are this day pretty full), that I might immediately deliver you from the uneasiness you are under, that my Protestant brethren, the Dissenters, were intended as the party that opposed the charitable design that is carried on in Worcestershire.

You will see by the list of subscribers, that the disregard of that charitable undertaking lies in another quarter; for you cannot but miss the names of the principal persons of a very different class.

This morning, my good friend and brother, the Bishop of Gloucester,+ did me the favour of a visit, when I received his commands to express the great regard he justly entertains for you, in which I cannot but most heartily concur; being with true respect, Sir,

Your

very affectionate humble Servant,

FRA. WORCESTER.

*Dr. Maddox.

Dr. Benson.

DEAR SIR,

FROM NATHANIEL NEAL, ESQ.

Million Bank, Feb. 1748. FORGIVE the last hasty letter I wrote you, and that I have been so long in acknowledging your condescending

answer.

I confess, I see so many resting in devout frames and external forms, and so few set in earnest about subduing their passions and amending their lives, who would melt into tears under an affectionate or awakening sermon, that I am, perhaps, too jealous of every thing that has the remotest tendency to leave them easy in such a state ;— and though your observing, that if the desire of divine blessings be real, it will put us on endeavours to obtain them, and that such promises are to be taken in their connexion, is sufficient to justify you from any impropriety of expression; yet the question still remains, whether it be explicit enough to guard against the abuse of a doctrine so liable to perversion, and the abuse of which may be attended with such dangerous consequences.

The passions are the surest hold to be taken of many persons, to lead them to a religious life; but yet they are too uncertain to be long depended on; and the vast inconsistency of character with which many (I was going to say most) persons are chargeable, arises I apprehend from this—that their religion depends too much upon the mood they are in. And many truly good persons are often distressed, because, either through the natural decay of the springs of affection, from age or infirmities, or the sitting under a less powerful ministry, they do not find themselves in such lively frames, as they were wont to be, though, perhaps, their conversation is more becoming the gospel of Christ.

Methinks, when I recollect our Saviour's triumphant

entry into Jerusalem, and the crowds that followed him with their hosannas, and afterwards hear the same people calling out to crucify him, and hissing him to his cross;— a most instructive lesson is read me, on the instability of human passions. Or, to come to our own times, when I see persons, who, for a while, had forsaken all to follow Mr. Whitfield, who were frequently drowned in tears under his preaching, and so zealous as to be rebaptized by him, now amongst the most careless and stupid sinners-when I see such events, and hear infidels and libertines triumphing in them, as if all religion was enthusiasm, and observe that some ministers are so weak as therefore to avoid any address to the passions (which, in my opinion, is an extreme equally pernicious, and shows them to be unacquainted with human nature), I feel an anxiety of mind, whenever the affections are set afloat by a religious discourse, if they are not instantly and vigorously turned into such a channel, as may show they were addressed chiefly to awaken our attention, that we might give the gospel of Christ a favourable hearing, in order to our becoming what it requires and enables us to be. And I consider the not giving the affections such a direction, the loss of a most favourable opportunity for doing the greatest good, as well as the possible occasion of slander of the gospel.

I know, dear Sir, how much your heart elates with humble thankfulness, in any evidences of your usefulness, and there is no one who more sincerely rejoices than myself, in the abundance of these evidences, wherewith you are surrounded, and which I pray may be daily increasing: and, though I know you would as soon serve the meanest disciple of Christ as the greatest, yet give me leave to remind you, that he has called you to move in the highest sphere; your usefulness in which depends on your fulfilling your part with distinguished judgment, as well as with distinguished humility. Forgive me, therefore, if knowing