440' MEMOIRS OF MR BOSTON. hand, I humbly intreat, that, if your affairs will permit, you will be pleafed to take the trouble ofglancing it over ; to the end, you may have a more clear view of the nature of the work, and may be fully fatisfied in the point of your affording or de- nying it your countenance: for bating fome alterations which I found ground for making, when the Latin copy was written, the former is the fame with the latter. If, upon perufal of the Englith copy, your favourable incli- nation thall continue, I. will prefume to beg your advice to Mr Grant, as to his management of the affair. The weight and importance of the matter, and the juftice of allowingone to expréfs a due gratitude, will, I hope plead ex- cufe for offering you the trouble of this from a firanger ; who craves leave to fubfcribe hirnfelf,-Honoured Sir,your Ho- nour's very obedient, moil humble fervant, T. BOSTON. 'No 13. Sir Richard Ellys's Anfwer, referred to p. 487. l. 2S. Dec. 16. 1730. I received yours with great pleafbre : and can affure you, it is not for any want of refpeCt that I have been fo long in return- ing you my thanks for it. Believe me fromwhat 1 have read of yours, and the charaeter I have from others, concerning you, I have the higheft regard for you. The FourfoldState, which I went through with much fatisfaélion, has given me no fmall idea of your piety ; and.I have fome reafbn to think, your Effay on the Hebrew accentuation may in time give the learned wald as great a value and efteem for your koowledge in that abftrufe part of literature. I cannot pretend to much depth in any part of learning ; in this I muft own myfelf entirely ignorant : but this., I know, if it fuceeds, it is a glorious work, as it Inuit necef- farily be fubfervient in tbe higheft degree towards fettling our minds, and coinpoting our differences, in thefe fad diftraéled times. Has Providence dire6ted you to rules for the afcertaining the fenfe of fcripture, or at leaft for reducing it in fome good mea- fure to a greater certainty than heretofore ? For my own part, I had rather be author offuch a book, than mafter of the Indies. After I have faid this, Sir, I hope I need not add much to affure you, I will do whatever lies in my power to ferve you in this noble defign. *The very failing in an attempt of this na- ture has its merit :
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