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to advance the discovery, communication
and success of both; a life so occupied,
and arrived at that period which
I'enders every life venerable, commands
respect by a title, ,vhich no virtuous
mind will disput€, whirh no mind sensible
of the importance of these studies
to the supreme concernments of ii.1ankind
will not rejoice to see acknowledged.
Whatever difference, or '\vhatever
opposition, some who peruse your
Lordship's writings may perceive between
your conclusions and their own,
the good and wise of all persuasions
"\1.~j~! revere that industry, which has for
its object the illustration or defence of
our common Christianity. Your Lord­
~hip's researches have never lost sight
of one purpose, namely, to recover the
simplicity of the gospel from beneath
that load of unauthorized additions,
which the ignorance of some ages, and
the learning of others, the superstition
of weak, and the craft of designing
men, have (unhappily for its inter~st J
heaped upon it. And this purpose, I
am convinced, was dictated by the purest
motive; by a firm, and I think a