BIB_ID
415861
Accession number
MA 1854.4
Creator
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1815 May 1.
Credit line
Purchased from Joanna Langlais, 1957.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 20.2 x 12.6 cm
Notes
Dr. Brabant was an English physician in Devizes who also had an interest in German Higher Criticism. Coleridge was a patient of Dr. Brabant during the years he lived in Calne.
This collection, MA 1854, is comprised of ten autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to R.H. Brabant, written from March 10, 1815 through December 5, 1816. It also includes 4 pages of autograph notes and one fragment of an autograph letter signed to Brabant. The fragment is written from Calne but is undated.
This letter is from the Joanna Langlais Collection, a large collection of letters written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients. The collection has been divided into subsets, based primarily on Coleridge's addressees, and these sub-collections have been cataloged individually as MA 1848- MA 1857.
Address panel to "R. Brabant, Esqre."
Date of writing from published letter cited below.
The bottom half of the page three has been cut away.
This collection, MA 1854, is comprised of ten autograph letters signed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to R.H. Brabant, written from March 10, 1815 through December 5, 1816. It also includes 4 pages of autograph notes and one fragment of an autograph letter signed to Brabant. The fragment is written from Calne but is undated.
This letter is from the Joanna Langlais Collection, a large collection of letters written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to various recipients. The collection has been divided into subsets, based primarily on Coleridge's addressees, and these sub-collections have been cataloged individually as MA 1848- MA 1857.
Address panel to "R. Brabant, Esqre."
Date of writing from published letter cited below.
The bottom half of the page three has been cut away.
Provenance
Purchased from Joanna Langlais in 1957 as a gift of the Fellows with the special assistance of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, Mr. Homer D. Crotty, Mr. and Mrs. Donald F. Hyde, Mr. Robert H. Taylor and Mrs. Landon K. Thorne. Formerly in the possession of Ernest Hartley Coleridge and Thomas Burdett Money-Coutts, Baron Latymer.
Summary
Discussing the beliefs of the Rev. Thomas Methuen; saying "In my own convictions, I am far nearer Mr. T. Methuen's Creed than the fashionable one of the sober-in-the-way-of-preferment Churchmen - who hold the doctrines of Athanasius in the Spirit of Socinus, and contrive, like the Oxymuriate of Potash when it meets with the sulphuric Acid of Interest, to blaze, as Christians, in the water of worldly plain Sense. - But the misfortune is, that the Evangelical Clergy, who are really saving the Church, are too generally deficient in Learning, both historical and metaphysical - & in consequence take weak positions, and neglect the most impregnable. I ventured to advise Mr. T. Methuen to draw up a Professio Fidei of an Evangelical Clergyman - 1. What he does believe. 2. What he does not believe! 3 - and why? 4. and by what authorities confirmed - so as to prove his Faith to be that which was common to all the great Reformers, & continued to be the Faith of the Church of England universally till the appearance of a Semi-romanism at the close of the reign of James the first -. The main point would be to prove wherein Arminius actually differed from all the first Reformers - Luther, Calvin, Oecolampadius, Melanchton, Zuinglius, and the Framers of our Articles & Homilies - then wherein Grotius still farther receded than Arminius, so as to approximate at once to the Romanists & the Socinians, yet keeping a plausible distance from both - & finally to prove, that in essentials & in spirit the Faith of the sober Episcopatus nolens-volens Clergy is a Religio Grotiana - ...;" remaining portion of the manuscript has been cut away.
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