Record ID:
125601
Accession number:
MA 514.19
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description:
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 32.3 cm
Notes:
Docketed.
Address panel with fragment of a seal and postmark "The Rev'd Dr. Doddridge / at his house / at / Northampton."
This item is part of a collection of letters and manuscripts of Isaac Watts to Philip Doddridge and others; see main record for MA 514 for more information.
Summary:
Discussing his concerns over his involvement with Dissenters; asking "whether the Enthusiasm & Extravagancies of weak Christians have not furnished out some of the most specious pleas as well as splendid triumphs of Infidelity?" adding "If enthusiasts therefore, by their principles, are laying a foundation of Deism (however they might abhor it in their intentions) it behoves us surely to see to it, that we give them no assistance in their word." .
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson, 1905.
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