A Letter to the Reverend Dr. Codex: On the Subject of His Modest Instruction to the Crown, Inserted in the Daily Journal of Feb, 27th 1733, From the Second Volume of Burnet's History (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from A Letter to the Reverend Dr. Codex: On the Subject of His Modest Instruction to the Crown, Inserted in the Daily Journal of Feb, 27th 1733, From the Second Volume of Burnet's History

Reverend Sir,

The vacancy now in the Church hath been long unsupply'd, and the World have beheld this Accident with that Regard which is so justly due to Supreme Authority. No Man hath presumed to allow himself Liberties on this Subject beyond the decent Bounds of private Animadversion; and to those reasonable Limits such Persons as are the most tenderly interested in this Affair, would have restrain'd their Reflections had not You, Sir, made your Appeals to the Populace, as privileg'd beyond other Men, how much foever above you in Rank, or Dignity, or Merit.

What I mean by your making Appeals to the Populace is best to be explained by reciting a Paragraph inserted by your Direction in the Daily Journal of February the 27th. Your Care and Expence, at all Times bestowed info judicious a Manner, can never be too much applauded, but it deserves a most particular Acknowledgment, that you should be at the Trouble and Charge of informing the Publick, in a Paper of Coffee-House Intelligence, that "In the fecond Volume of Bishop Burnet's History, p.119. publish'd a few Days since, there is this Remarkable Passage, viz.

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