1730. RR THOMAS BOSTON. 379 few days before, to give to gentlemen of his acquaintance. A third, May 12. bearing, the fending along a fmall fpecimen of the new types caft fromAthias's mold, received by me as afore- faid. A fourth, May 12. bearing, that Sir Richard Ellysdefired him to'tell me, that his purfe shall not be fpared, to encourage any work of mine. A fifth, May 21. bearing, that the faid Sir Richard having read the fpecimen, likes it, and the defign of the work ; and is difpofed to encourage it ; that he was to write to two friends in Holland along with the fpecimen, and to fend them withal a copy of the Fourfold State ; and that Mr G. knows not if I can find fuck another patron in the ifland, to dedicate the effay to : That Suicerus's Thefaurus Ecclfaftiezcs, printed at Amfterdam'1728, is dedicated to him, where is to be found a handfome charaóter of him for his learning ; and that Mr G. defires to be fent up to him the Englifh copy of the effay on the accentuation, as alfo the effay on the firft twenty chapters of Genefis, that he mayput it in the hands of the faid Sir Richard and feveral others. In thefe letters alfo was expreffed a defire of feveral to fee the MS. on the covenant of grace. There things, expreffed more ftrongly in the letters aforefaid, a more full abftraát whereof ,is to be found among my papers, rooked as if the Lord was in his way to fulfil a paffage of the 71fá= pfalm, which was given me as above-mentioned. But for a bz knice hereto I heard on the Monday, that Prof. Gordon was a-dying, I knowing of nothing doneby him in the matter byhim undertaken. Mr Hogg being with us on the communion-oc- cafion, I fent along with him the Englifhcopy of the effay on the accentuation ; who loon after got an occafion of conveying it away to London. In the fecond week of June, I had another letter from Mr G. directed to Mr Hogg, dated London, May. 30. bearing the receiving of the effay on the text of Genefis fromAberdeen ; the making out of a fpecimen thereof in print, the. which I accord- ingly received ; and that Drs Knight and Bedford had read the fpecimen of the effay on the accentuation, efteemed the work as a work of great labour and curiofity, and were difpofed for the work's being printed, though they are not entirely fixed in the belief of the divine authority of the accents. That and the following week were (pent in carryingon the ac-. count of my life, interrupted by the communion-work : and in preparing difpatches in confequence of the letters aforefaid. I wrote a letter to Sir Richard Ellys, and a memorial concerning the Englifh copy of the effay on the accentuation, as alfo con- cerning the effày on the firft twenty chapters of Genefis $ ; judging the fame neceffary for thofe intowhore hands thefe MSS. might come. I confidered the printed fpecimens ; found that *A copy of this memorial, relative to theEífay on the Hebrew text of Genis, is in he Appendix, No 5.
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