sometime LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM. “I am more indebted to his writings than to those of any other uninspired writer, for the insight which I have been enabled to attain into the motives of the Divine Economy and the grounds of moral obligation.” From a Letter of the late Bishop Kaye , of Lincoln . LONDON: RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE. 1853. LONDON : gilbert and rivington , printers , st. john’s square...

It has long been a subject of regret that we should have so few remains of so great a writer as the author of the “Analogy,” not only the greatest thinker of his day, but one almost equally remarkable for his personal religion and amiability. The few fragments and letters which remain unpublished, derive from this circumstance a value wholly incommensurate with their extent, though, as to the few I have been able to recover, they seem to me worthy of notice even for their own sake. There can, I

God cannot approve of any thing but what is in itself Right, Fit, Just.  We should worship and endeavour to obey Him with this Consciousness and Recollection.  To endeavour to please a man merely, is a different thing from endeavouring to please him as a wise and good man, i.e. endeavouring to please him in the particular way, of behaving towards him as we think the relations we stand in to him, and the intercourse we have with him, require. Almighty God is to be sure infinitely removed from all

What a wonderful incongruity it is for a man to see the doubtfulness in which things are involved, and yet be impatient out of action, or vehement in it!  Say a man is a Sceptick, and add what was said of Brutus, quicquid vult valde vult , and you say, there is the greatest Contrariety between his Understanding and his Temper that can be expressed in words. * * * * * In general a man ought not to do other people’s duty for them; for their duty was appointed them for their exercise; and besides,

Shall I not be faithful to God?  If He puts a part upon me to do, shall I neglect or refuse it?  A part to suffer, and shall I say I would not if I could help it?  Can words more ill-sorted, more shocking be put together?  And is not the thing expressed by them more so, tho’ not expressed in words?  What then shall I prefer to the sovereign Good, supreme Excellence, absolute Perfection?  To whom shall I apply for direction in opposition to Infinite Wisdom?  To whom for protection against Almight

From a Copy formerly belonging to Dr. Birch, and now in the library at the British Museum.  [Add. MS. 4370.] Rev. Dr. ’Twas but last night I received your letter from Gloucester, having left that place three weeks since.  It revived in my mind some very melancholy thoughts I had upon my being obliged to quit those studies, that had a direct tendency to divinity, that being what I should chuse for the business of my life, it being, I think, of all other studies the most suitable to a reasonable n

The original of this Letter with the answer, which is roughly written on the blank leaf, is, I believe, now in the library of Oriel College, Oxford.  I am indebted for my copy to the kindness of the Rev. J. H. Newman, D.D., formerly of that College. Rev. Sir , I had long resisted an Inclination to desire your Thoughts upon the difficulty mentioned in my last, till I considered that the trouble in answering it would be only carrying on the general purpose of your Life, and that I might claim the

From the original, now in the library at the British Museum.  [Add. MS. 12,101.] Rev. Sir , I had the honour of your kind letter yesterday, and must own that I do now see a difference between the nature of that disposition which we have to be influenced by virtuous motives , and that contrary disposition , (or whatever else it may properly be called,) which is the occasion of our committing sin ; and hope in time to get a thorough insight into this Subject by means of those helps you have been p

Almighty God, by whose protection we were preserved the night passed, and are here before Thee this morning in health and safety; we dedicate this day, and all the days we have to live to Thy service; resolving, that we will abstain from all evil, that we will take heed to the thing that is right in all our actions, and endeavour to do our duty in that state of life in which Thy Providence has placed us.  We would remind ourselves that we are always, wherever we may go, in Thy presence.  We woul

Almighty God, whose continued providence ordereth all things both in Heaven and Earth; Who never slumberest nor sleepest; but hast divided the light from the darkness, and made the day for employment and the night for rest to Thy creatures the inhabitants of the earth: we acknowledge with all thankfulness Thy merciful preservation of us this day, by which we are brought in safety to the evening of it.  We implore Thy forgiveness of all the offences which we have been guilty of in it, whether in

From a MS. in the British Museum.  [Add. 9815.] When the late Lord Bishop of Durham first intended to have a place of Divine Worship erected in Kings Wood, his Scheme was,—To solicit Subscriptions for building a Chapel, and to give £400 towards the Endowment of it, in order to get the like Sum from the Governors of Q. Ann’s Bounty.  And he was pleased to lay his Commands upon me to make Application to persons the most likely to contribute to that good Work. The report I brought him in Consequenc