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The life of John Sharp, D.D., Lord Archbishop of York (1825)
The life of John Sharp DD Lord Archbishop of York - 1825 Author:John Sharp Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: vered something of primitive Christianity revived in this letter, as may be judged by the character he gives the writer of it in his Historical Memoirs of Dr. Cl... more »ark, p. 16. "I sent," says he, " a copy of my MS. fourth volume, or an account of the primitive faith concerning the Trinity and Incarnation, to Dr. Sharp, the Archbishop of York, that very good, that very honest man, that excellent preacher and great friend to Mr. Clark and myself." He was not indeed mistaken in his opinion of the Archbishop's real friendship to them both, of which he gave undoubted instances to each, when he entreated them to lay aside their intentions of stirring up new debates, or rather reviving old ones upon the subject of the Trinity. He warned both of them of the mischief they were in danger of doing by publishing their notions, and endeavoured to apprise them of the ill consequences that might follow upon the disputes that would necessarily arise in the prosecution of that controversy. So that notwithstanding his friendship for both their persons, he was by no means a friend, to those doctrines, by which they distinguished themselves, but opposed them with that honest zeal that became one who looked upon their errors as dangerous and pernicious. He did not indeed live to see any progress made in the controversy upon Dr. Clark's " Scripture Doctrine," for thedebate was scarce opened in his time. But he had made warm remonstrances to the doctor himself against publishing that book, and fore- shewed him both the disturbance he would thereby give to others, and the troubles he would bring upon himself; and probably he would have carried his opposition further, had he lived longer. As to Mr. Whiston, he did more than barely declare himself against him. He set others on work to confute him; particula...« less