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adeundi, quos ut porro fauori & precibus tuis commendatos habeas, humaniffime ex te peto. Quod reliquum eft, pereximium librum tuum, quem de Chrifto redemptore & fanctificatore noftro confcripfifti, traditum a me effe fcias, ut in vernaculam noftram converfus, typis exfcribatur. Id quod haud quaquam tibi difpliciturum confidimus. Vale & nos amare perge. Scripfi Halae d. 13 Jan. 1737.

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From Jo. HEN. CALLENBERN to Dr. Watts.

MAGNAM ex litteris, libellifque tuis cepi voluptatem; illæ enim tui erga me favoris. teftes funt, hic animo infuper méo fructum attulerunt. Quicquid efficiendæ, firmandæque piæ animi demiffioni infervit, id cupide ufurpo, ex quo intellexi quam pertinax, & infidiofa fit vitiofitas, que ei adverfatur, dictorum a certæ formæ abftinentia virorum caufam nunc accuratius novi. Reddat Deus chriftianos homines opinionum partim fteriliores, partim tolerantiores; christique vere amantes, ac tenaces fundamenti, quantocunque locorum, aliove disjuncti fint intervallo, confociet ad tractandum & propagandum opus, quod unum est neceffarium! Eo fenfu ut imbuerem tributes meos, fub lamphili nomine, abhinc feptem annis, vulgari fcriptum: Henrici Gulielmi Ludolfi, aulæ Anglicanæ fecretarii, confilium de univerfæ ecclefiæ falute procuranda: quod, data occafione, tecum communicato. Directa ad beatum virum, Cott. Matherum narratio epiftolica hiftorici operis particula eft. Complectitur illud Hiftoriam Ecclefiæ Univerfæ inde ab anno fuperioris fæculi octogefimo nono; bona cujufvis, coctas in eo ample a me, commemorantur, at fummatim mala; utraque fincere.

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Quomodo conatus nofter circa Judæos fuccedat, nova relatio aperiet, quam alia via transmittam. Abfoluta eft Novi Teftamenti editio Judaicogermanica, eodemque idiomate typis jam exfcribitur Vetus Teftamentum; in quo ufque ad pofteriorem Samuelis librum pervenimus. Primus laboris fru&tus extantior in gentis doctoribus quibufdam fpectatur. Adfit nobis Deus porro, & tibi quoque, Honoratiffime Fautor; fervet te quam diutif fime inter mortales, luce ac gratia fua mentem tuam beat, laborique tuo feliciffimum tribuat fucceffum! Vale in Chrifto, communi fervatore noftro, mihique favore perge. Scr. Halae Saxonum, d. 21 Maii, 1738.

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From Mr. ISAAC WATTS to Mr. ENOCH WATTS.

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MY DEAR BROTHER,

Send you the following definitions, or perhaps rather descriptions, according to your request, being the shortest and most comprehenfive that I can form upon the fubjects. Yours affectionately,

ISAAC WATTS.

The feveral opinions about religion, that are this day in England, are as follows: First, in respect of doctrine; Atheists, Deifts, Arians, Socinians, Quakers, Papifts, Arminians, Sabbatarians, Anabaptifts, Calvinifts, Baxterians, and Antinomians.

I. ATHEISTS.

First, Deny the being of God. 2d, Say that the world is eternal, that it had no beginning, and shall have no end, and that as men are continually born, and afterwards die, fo fucceffive generations fhall laft to eternity. Others indeed there

who fay the world was formed fome thousands of years ago by atoms, or little particles of matter jumping together by chance, and that these atoms

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shall after fome time fall to pieces again; and afterwards, it may be, jump into new worlds a very pretty conceit! So that they believe thefe atoms to be from eternity to eternity. 3d, Hence it follows, that there is nothing in man diftinct from his body, and that the foul is nothing but fine fpirits, drawn from the blood and playing about in the brain. 4th, Hence it follows, that they own no after ftate, but as the brute dies fo dies the man, and the foul dies with the body. 5th, As a consequence of all this, they think they may indulge themselves in all manner of pleasures.

II. DEIST S.

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First, They own there is a God. 2d, That this God is to be worshiped, i. e. by loving him, hopouring, and having awful thoughts of him. 3d, They deny the fcriptures to be the word of God, and fo are called Antifcripturifts. 4th, They deny the Trinity and Chrift, and all the methods of the Chriftian Religion that are particularly revealed in fcripture, and oblige themfelves only to perform the duties of natural religion, i. e. loving and honouring God in general, and fometimes praying to him and giving him thanks, and being honeft among men. 5th, Hereby they suppose they fo please God, that they fhall be in an happy state

hereafter,

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