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My dear Friend,

Received in due Time your last Letter. Should have fent the Conclufion of my Manuscript, but it has been lent out, and is not yet returned.

I fhall be glad to see your Correspondence with Mr. Sandeman.-The enclosed is a Copy of a Letter, which I fent fome Years ago, to two Malefactors under Sentence of Death.-It is got into a good many Hands. Some would have me print it. I wish you would be so kind as to revise it, and give me your Opinion.-People say, there is not enough said, concerning the Spiritual Change, or the New Heart.

My next fhall bring you a little Piece of mine, which, without my Knowledge, has paffed the Prefs. I have lately been in great want of Franks. But now I have got a Recruit.

I have been very ill this Week, but had Strength enough to read in your Book. I was much edified by Mr. Simpfon's Sermons. Pray, are his whole Works to be procured? And are they of the fame Spirit, with the Sermons which you have given us? If so, I should defire to fee, to poffefs them all?

I am,

Very affectionately yours,

Wefton, Sept. 23, 1758

J. HERVEY.

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My dear Friend,

Xcufe me for keeping your MS.* so long, I have been extremely Ill. This Morning I have been up for four Hours, and in all that Time not able to look into a Book, or hold up my Head.

I fully affent to your Opinion. Think you have proved the Warrant for a Sinner's Application of CHRIST very fatisfactorily. If I live, I should much defire a Copy of this your Correspondence; when have revised and finished it. Or do you intend to print it?

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Have you got fome complete Sets of all your Works? If you have, I wish you would lodge about four of them at Mr. Rn's. Let them be only in Sheets. And when you have given me Notice, that they are depofited with him, I will order him to pay you a Guinea for them. I promifed a worthy Clergyman a Set, fome Days

ago.

Yours affectionately,

Weston, Dec. 2.

J. HERVEY.

* The remaining Part of my Correspondence with Mr. Sandeman.

Dear Mr. CUDWORTH,

I Am so weak, I am scarcely able to write my

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Dec. 15, 1758.

J. HERVEY.

+ Hearing how dangerously ill Mr. Hervey was, I wrote to remind him of leaving fomething under his Hand in Regard to his Writings, as he knew the Situa-tion of them now required it; and this was all the Anfwer he could give me.

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SUMMARY of the DOCTRINE that was the Subject of the preceeding

Correfpondence.

Collected in Mr.

HERVEY'S Own Words.

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OTHING is required, in order to our Participation of CHRIST and his Benefits.-Come, and take freely*, is our MASTER's Language, without staying to acquire any graceful Qualities, is his Meaning. Pages 251, 252.

To whom is their Meffage addreffed? To the Poor, the Maimed, the Halt, the Blind ↑. Perfons who have no amiable or recommending Endowments, but every loathfome and difguftful Property. p. 252.

It is not a Matter of Bargain, nor the Subject of Sale, but a Deed of Gift. The Gift of Righteousness, fays the Apoftle. And Gifts, we all know, are not to be purchased, but received. p. 254.

The Gifts of the great eternal SOVEREIGN are intended, not to recognize our imaginary Worth,

*Rev. xxii. 17.

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+ Matth. xx. 11,

Worth, but to aggrandize our Views of his Mercy and Grace. To answer fuch a Defign, the Unworthy and the Sinners are duly qualified; nay, are the only qualified Perfons.

Scripture requires no other.-The ever merciful SAVIOUR fays not, they are unqualified for my Merits; they have no valuable or noble Acquirements. But this is his tender Complaint; They will not come to me, just as they are; with all their Sins about them; with all their Guilt upon them, that they may have Life *. p. 256.

Since the LORD JEHOVAH has given Us his SON, and all his unutterable Merits; why fhould we not, with an Affurance of Faith, receive the incomparable Gift? Why fhould we not confide in it t, as firmer than the firmeft Deed? and far more inviolable, than any royal Patent? p. 273.

-There is no clogging Qualification, no Worth to be poffeffed, no Duty to be performed, in order to your full Participation of CHRIST and his Riches.-CHRIST dwelleth in our Hearts.-How? by legal Works, and laborious Pre-requifites? No; but by Faith . p. 293.

* John v. 40.

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It is here very evident, that Mr. Hervey, by Affurance of Faith, intends immediate trufting, or confiding in that, which God has given to be the Object of the Sinner's Confidence.

+ Eph. iii. 17.