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think myself entitled upon any of the other accounts you mention, besides that only, of wearing a name to which you, by your learning, have done honour.
I can only say for myself, that I have a sincere desire to do all the good which my abilities will capacitate me for in the station in which it has pleased Providence to place me; and a sincere delight to see virtue and religion defended in an age which so much wants it by able hands.
And no one can be more ready than myself to acknowledge how much, upon this account, we are indebted to the learned labours and admirable writings of several of those whom we have the unhappiness to have differing from us in less important particulars.
I beg of God to bless your and their labours for his service, and to unite us all in love and charity here, and glory hereafter.
And yourself I beg, with much regard, to believe me to be,
Sir,
Your faithful and much obliged humble servant,
We may add to the author's friends and occasional correspondents among distinguished churchmen, Hoadley, Butler, and Law,—names which may rather be said to confer honour on the elevated stations to which they were raised, than to receive honour from them.
In the list of subscribers to Dr. Benson's posthumous History of the Life of Christ, we also observe the Bishops of Lichfield and Worcester; Shute Barrington, afterwards Bishop of Durham; Newcome, then Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, afterwards
