voice fhall hereafter awake all the dead; may we find this happiness ours; and be taken, with all we have loved here, to live with thee for ever.

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REV. DR. PRIESTLEY.

DEAR FRIEND,

AM happy in the opportunity which the republi

cation of my Sermons gives me to express my gratitude to you for the notice you have taken of them in your letters to me, lately published. I have confidered your remarks with the attention due to all you write. I feel most fenfibly the affection with which you have offered them; and I think myself particularly obliged to you for allowing me to keep the refolution I have formed not to engage in a controverfy. My intention, therefore, in the following Notes is, not to anfwer your arguments, but chiefly to ftate fome of the most important of them, that our readers may be better able to form their judgments on the points about which we differ.

You, Sir, are in various refpects fo distinguished as to be above any competition of which I am capable. There is, however, a merit in which I can claim an

equal fhare with you: And that is, the merit of giving the public an example (little known among religious men) of two friends who, confidering nothing as effential but a fincere defire to know and follow truth, preserve an invariable respect for one another, notwithstanding very great differences of opinion on religious fubjects.

Hackney, July 17th, 1787.

I am, &c.

A P