sections of the second part, intitled, "Observations," &c. as if they
parts of my conduct. But we having now twice encountered, you treating of faith, and I of repentance, and again you of repentance, and I of faith, I perceive our strain is so very different, that there seems to me to be a danger in our encountering before a multitude from several places in the country wherein our lot is cast. However venturous others may be, I, who have had about twenty years' experience of the temper of the people in these parts, would be very inexcusable if I should not be wary."
No. VII
THE following is a copy of the memorial here mentioned:
"1. The English copy of the Essay on the Hebrew accentuation, being written several years before the Latin copy, there are some things in the former altered in the latter; particularly, one whole section is dropped, being, I suppose the third of the 5th chapter; another chapter or section is transposed; and there are some few alterations and amendments of another kind made in the writing it over in Latin. Being sent off in a time when I was otherwise busy, I had no access to take a note of these things. However, it will give a view of the nature of the whole essay; but it is not fit for the press.
2. No body needs to be amused at the sight of the chapters and sections of the second part, intitled, "Observations," &c. as if they contained so many rules for the understanding the art itself. That is taught in the chapters or sections preceding respectively; and these are but so many helps offered, for the practical use of the art, in order to reach the true sense of the sacred text by means thereof; and therefore none of the books teaching the art, which have as yet come into my hands, had any thing in them of that kind. Besides one who embraceth the notion of the fixed value of the accents, and withal understands and observes the five heads of rhetorical accentuation mentioned in the specimen, will hardly find a new labour, I hope, in