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this publication is extremely well calculated. Permit me, MyLord, to thank you for the honourable and friendly mention youhave made of my books.

“ Your Lordship is correct in attributing “ Plain Reasons forbeing a Christian” originally to my late father-in-law. It waswritten in conjunction with Dr. Hunt, who among the dissenters,on account of his skill in Hebrew , went by the name of RabbiHunt.

“ I am, &c.

“ Edward Harwood.

“ Hyde-street, Bloomsbury, March 27. 1785.”

Doctor Harwood was a learned and a respectable man ; he diedin 1794, and about a year before his death he published a letterin a valuable miscellany (Gentleman’s Magazine, Nov. 1793,p. 994.) which he concludes in the following very remarkablemanner : — “ After expending a great deal of time in discussing,I am neither an Athanasian, Arian , or a Socinian, but die fullyconfirmed in the great doctrine of the New Testament , a resur­ rection , and a future state of eternal blessedness to all sincerepenitents and good Christians .”

The most undecided men on doubtful points are those oftenwho have bestowed most time in the investigation of them,whether the points respect divinity, jurisprudence, or policy.He who examines only one side of a question, and gives hisjudgment, gives it improperly, though he may be on the rightside. But he who examines both sides, and after examinationgives his assent to neither, may surely be pardoned this suspen-

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