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much trouble: there he was prayed for particularly. After this, he gave fome orders with great ferenity of mind; and an occafion offering of fpeaking of the Goodness of God; he efpecially exalted the Love which God fhewed to Man, in justifying him by Faith in JESUS CHRIST. He returned him thanks in particular, for having called him to the knowledge of that divine Saviour. He exhorted all about him to read the Holy Scripture attentively, and to apply themselves fincerely to the practice of all their duties; adding exprefly, that by this means they would be more happy in this world, and fecure to themselves the poffeffion of eternal felicity in the other. He paft the whole night without fleep. The next day he caused himself to be carried into his closet, for he had not ftrength to walk by himself; and there in his chair, and in a kind of dozing, tho' in his full fenfes, as appeared by what he faid from time to time, he gave up the ghost about three in the afternoon the 28th of October.

I beg you, Sir, not to take what I have faid of Mr. LOCKE's Character for a finished Portrait. It is only a flight fketch of fome few of his excellent qualities. I am told we shall quickly have, it done by the hand of a master. To that I refer you. Many features, I am sure, have escaped me: but I dare affirm, that thofe which I have given you a draught of, are not

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fet off with false colours, but drawn faithfully from the life.

I must not omit a particular in Mr. LOCKE'S Will, which it is of no fmall importance to the Commonwealth of Learning to be acquaint ed with; namely, that therein he declares what were the Works which he had published without fetting his name to them. The occafion of it was this: fome time before his death, Dr. HUDSON, Keeper of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, had defired him to fend him all the Works with which he had favoured the Public, as well thofe with his name as thofe without, that they might be all placed in that famous Library. Mr. LOCKE fent him only the former, but in his Will he declares, he is refolved fully to fatisfy Dr. HUDSON; and to that intent he bequeaths to the Bodleian Library a copy of the reft of his Works to which he had not prefixed his name, viz. a Latin Letter concerning Toleration, printed at Tergou, and translated some time afterwards into English unknown to Mr. LOCKE; two other Letters upon the fame subject, in answer to the Objections made against the firft; The Reasonableness of Chriftianity, with two Vindications of that Book; and Two Treatifes of Government. These are all the anonymous Works which Mr. LOCKE Owns himself to be the Author of.

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For the reft, I shall not pretend to tell you at what age he died, because I do not certainly know it. I have often heard him say, he had forgot the year of his birth, but that he be lieved he had fet it down fomewhere. It has not yet been found among his papers; but it is computed that he was about fixty fix.

Tho' I have continued fome time at Lon don, a City very fruitful in Literary News, I have nothing curious to tell you. Since Mr. LOCKE departed this life, I have hardly been able to think of any thing, but the lofs of that great Man, whofe Memory will always be dear to me happy, if, as I admired him for many, years, that I was near him; I cou'd but imitate him, in any one refpect! I am with all fin cerity, Sir, your &c.

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page 1. A Letter from a person of Quality to his Friend in the Country: giving an account of the Debates and Refolutions of the House of Lords, in April and May, 1675, concerning a Bill, entitled: An Act to prevent the Dangers which may arife from Perfons difaffected to the Govern

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57 Remarks upon fome of Mr. NORRIS's Books, wherein he afferts E. MALE BRANCHE'S Opinion of our feeing all things in God 153 Elements of Natural Philosophy 179 Some Thoughts concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman

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