xt7qjq0stw34_1548 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection James Harvey letter to Dr. [Sir James] Stonhouse text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. James Harvey letter to Dr. [Sir James] Stonhouse 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_14/Folder_97/Multipage4913.pdf 1745 November 16 1745 1745 November 16 
  Scope and Contents
  Peal accession no. 11081b. Includes a transcript and a  biographical clipping.
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It is not easy to express the Satisfaction I received from
your agreeable & useful Conversation this afternoon. I rejoice to
find that there are Gentlemen of Genius, Learning, & Politeness,

who dare profess a supreme Value for the Scriptures, & are not a—
shamed of the Cross of Christ. I congratulate you, dear Sir, on

this occasion; & can not but look on a Mind so principled, & a heart
so disposed, as a very choice & distinguishing Part of your Happi-
ness. Was I to frame a Wish or the dearest & most valuable Friend
on Earth, I woud(§ig) earnestly desire, that he might grow daily in
this Grace, & encrease in the Knowledge of our Lord & Saviour Jesus
Christ. And when my Pen begs leave to assure you, that this is my
unfeigned Wish for Dr. Stonhouse, it only transcribes what is deep—
ly written on my Heart. .

This brings the Dedication & the Preface, which are to introduce a
little Essay, entitled Meditations among the Tombs, & Reflections on
a Flower Garden, in two Letters to a Lady. I hope, Sir, in consequence
of your kind Promise, you will please to peruse them with the File in
your Hand. The Severity of the Critick, & the Kindness of the Friend,
‘in this case, will be inseperable. - The Evangelical Strain, I be-
lieve, must be preservedz‘because otherwise the introductory Thoughts
will not harmonize with the subsequent; the Porch will be unsuitable
to the Building. — But if you perceive any Meanness of Expression,
any Quaintness of Sentiment, or any other Impropriety & Inelegance:

I shall acknowledge it as a very singular Favour, if you will be so
good as to discover & correct such Blemishes.

I hope, Dr, my End in venturing to publish is an hearty Desire to
serve, in some little Degree, the Interests of Christianity, by en—
deavouring to set some of its most important Truths in a Light, that
may both entertain & edify. As I profess this View, I am certain,
your affectionate Regard for the most excellent Religion imaginable
will incline you to be concerned for the Issue of such an Attempt; &
therefore to contribute to its success, both by bestowing your Ani-
madversions upon these small Parts, & by speaking of the Whole (when
I shall come abroad) with all that Candor which is natural to the
Christian, & will be so greatly needed by this new Adventurer in Let—
ters, who is,

r Dr Sr,
Weston, Novem. 16. I745. your most obliged humble Servt

To Dr Stonhouse at Ja? Hervey
Northampton.

 

James Hervey (I7I4—1758) English devotional writer, curate of Bid-

?ford, and known chiefly as the author of "Meditations Among the Tombs"
I746—7 .

Sir James Stonhouse (I716-I'795), first a physician, then a divine,
practiced for twenty years in Northampton, where Akenside tried to
displace him, but unsuccessfully. He became a convert, and was or-
dained in I749. He was a close friend of James Hervey, Philip Dod-
dridge, and George Whitefield.

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