1730. MR i'HONCAS BOSTON. 391 for her health ; fo that he had feen him but once thefe three months : That at that time he regretted to him, it had not been in his power, with the hurry he had been in that feafon, to give . me a return ; but fhewed a difpofition to fend ue a compliment as a token of his regard for me : That he had not yet got ac- counts from Holland, nor Dr Ziegenhagen from Bremen and Hall, about the fpecimen received in all thole parts : as alto, that Dr Waterland has been 11111 in the country ; and Mr Abraham Taylor fo much in it, that he had not feen him ; that he is a great man, and owns the divine authority. of the accents And further, 'That Dr Hay, our countryman, a clergyman of the church of England, though he is for the novelty of the points, yet values the work, and owns he has been infi:ru&ed by reading both the one and the other MS. ; that he has (bale- times engaged to lay out himfelf toget force of the ableft of their church to write a preface to it, recommending it ; that the author has made him a prefent of the Fourfold State ; that he has urged the author to wait of the Archbithop of Canterbury, and the Bifhopsof Durham and London, inorder to their encou- raging of it ; and had it not been for their titles they rnult have, he had ere now been introduced to them for that etle&: and, finally, defiring that I would fend him a title for the tranflation, with a view of printing a new fpecimenof both, with propofáls, if poffibly he can find encouragement; promifing to write me, how loon he fhould get Sir Richard's anfwer. On the frít reading of that letter, all I could do, was to lift my eyes to the Lord, that he would mould my heart into filch a frame and difpofition as might be agreeable to it. But upon further confidering of it, I was thankful for it; yet ftill feeing the neceflity of dependence on the Lord to he continued, with refpe& to that matter : and I could not but obferve, that, on the Monday after, being the 7th, having begun a narration of that letter, and abftra& of the fame, before I could have accefs to finith the fame, we fang in our ordinary at family-worlhip the lath part of the pfalrn which I have a particular expe&ation from, as above hinted, to wit, Pfal. lxxi. 2O. to the end, " Thou, Lord, who great adverfities," &e. ; the which I did with heart and good will, having now had time to think more of the matter, and fee further into the important afpe& Of that e tter. Te that letter I made a -large return. I prepared alfo, and feat therewith, a title-page for the effày on the text. But before the faid return had reached him, there came torny hand on the 27th, being the .Lord's day, a letter from him, dated London, Dec. 10. bearing, That Sir Richard Ellys hav- ing fent for him, communicated Mr Gowan above faid his re- turn to the above- mentioned letter concerning the fpecimen ; of the which, taken down in writing by Mr G. from Sir Richard's mouth di&ating the fame, the tenor follows. ` The fpecimen No. y. 3
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