Autograph letter signed : Newington, to [Edmund Gibson], 1738 June 30.

Expressing his pleasure that he is "so much approved by your Sentiments concerning the Grounds of our L'ds day Worship & concerning the Consecration of Churches. I think I can join w'h your L'p in every sentence of your prayers composed for that Service;" asking "why this form should not be made publick? Surely you must be sensible, my Lord, that multitudes have not such an honorable opinion of your L'ps sentiments in Ecclesiastic affairs as this Form of Consecration w'd give them. Will Time ever come when so much Condescension should be found thro' all the Episcopall Order to leave out every thing out of all the forms of Worship which might give offence to other Christians, i.e., such as hold the most necessary & important Doctrines of Christianity;" commenting that he is "very Sensible, my Lord, that the great Doctrines of the Sacrifice of Christ in its atoning vertue & his Intercession as built upon it, do greatly decline & lose ground in the Ch. of Engl'd & among Dissenters in the present age;" informing him that he has "taken a Copy in short hand of these forms of Consecration" and would like to show them to others unless he wishes that it be destroyed.