BIB_ID
368853
Accession number
MA 514.13
Creator
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.
Display Date
1743 Sept. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmark and traces of a seal to "The Rev'd Dr. Doddridge / att / Northamton."
Docketed with shorthand.
Signature excised.
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.
Docketed with shorthand.
Signature excised.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson, 1905.
Summary
Telling him he has reviewed his "Principles of the Christian Religion in Verse", will not make any changes to it and suggests it have a preface; saying that "since your Departure I have so many Questions asked me about your preaching or praying at the Tabernacle and of Sinking the Character of a Minister especially a Tutor, among the Dissenters so low, thereby I find many of your Friends [illegible] this Sentiment; but I can give no Answer to it, as not knowing how much you have been ingaged there. I pray God to guard us from every Temptation;" saying "I find since the Errors of the Moravians are reprinted here in England that their Doctrines are worse than I imagined tho I had read Count Zinzendorfs Sermons before;" saying he is very anxious for the publication of his "Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul. I am more Zealous for its speedy Conclusion & publication & beg you would not Suffer any other Things to divert you since I question whether you can do any thing more necessary." .
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