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mentioned , he published in 1734 or 1735 , a very ingenious € C Inquiry into the Ideas of Space , Time , * ' &c . in which he combats the opinions of Dr . Clarke and his adherents on these subjects , * Dr . Law held the see of Carlisle
almost nineteen years ; during which time he . twice , only , omitted spending the summer months in his diocese at the bishop ^ s residence at Rose Castle ; a situation with which he was much
be had , in what sense he considered the opening of John ' s Gospel . In the last editions of his translation of Archbishop King- on the Origin of Evil , and of his own Theory , Dr . Law omitted the dedication of the former to Dr . Waterland , and of the latter to Dr . Cornwallis . He omitted also ail complimentary expressions towards contemporary writers .
If these dedications and compliments were not deserved , they ought not to have been published ; but if they were , they ought not to have been suppressed after the death of the parties , unless they had forfeited tbeir pretensions to them ; which there is no reason to suppose .
* In addition to the works already mentioned , the bishop ' s smaller publications , including' his tract on Subscription and on the I # ife and Character of Christ , were the folio wing * : Sermons .
1 . 1743 . Litig-iousncss repugnant to Christianity . An assize sermon at Carlisle . ( Matt : v 40 . ) 2 . 1755 . Sermon before the Irish Protestant Schools . ( Jer . xxix . 7 . ) 3 . 1768 . True Nature and Interest of
Religion . A sermon on the death of Dr . Bland , Prebendary of Durham . ( Micah vi . 8 . ) 4 . 1771 . The Grounds of a particular Providence . A sermon before the Lords , Jan . 30 . ( Dan ii . 21 , 22 . )
5 . 1774 . Sermon before Society for Propagation of the Gospel , ( Mai . i . 11 . ) Tract sy—all printed at Cambridge . 1 . 1746 . The Nature and Necessity of Catechising * , with some Remarks thereon .
2 . 1769 . A Defence of Mr . Locke ' s Opinion concerning Personal Identity ; in Answer to the First Part of a late Essay on that Subject . —Afterwards inserted at the end of the first volume of bis edition of LockeV Works .
3 . 1770 . Observations ; occasioned by the Contest about Literary Property . 4 . 1774 . . Considerations on the Propriety of requiring- a Subscription to Articles of Faith . $ ; 1776 ; Reflections on tbe Life and Character of Clirist ; with a Summary , and . Appendix on the Gospel Morals .
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pleased / not only oh account of the natural beauty of the place , but be- , cause it restored him to the country in which he had spent the best part of his life . In the year 1787 * he paid this visit in a state of great weakness and exhaustion ; and died at Rose about a month after his arrival there , on the
14 th day of August , and in the 84 th year of his age . The life of Dr . Law was a life of incessant reading and thought , almost entirely directed to metaphysical and
religious inquiries ; but the tenet by which his name and writings are principally distinguished is , * ' that Jesus , at his second coming , will , by an act of his power , restore to life and consciousness the dead of the human
species , who , by their own nature , and without his interposition , would remain in the state of insensibility to which the death brought upon mankind by the sin of Adam had reduced them . "
He interpreted literally that saying of St . Paul , ( 1 Cor . xv . £ 1 , ) " As by man came death , by man came also the resurrection of the dead . " This opinion had no other effect upon his own mind than to increase his reverence for
Christianity , arid for its divine Founder . He retained it , as he did his other speculative opinions , without laying , as many are wont to do , an extravagant stress upon their importance , and without pretending to more certainty than the subject allowed of . No man formed his own conclusions with more
freedom , or treated those of others with greater candour and equity . He never quarrelled with any person for differing from him , or considered that difference as a sufficient reason for questioning any man ' s sincerity , or judging meanly of his understanding . He was zealously attached to religious liberty ,
because he thought that it leads to truth : yet from his heart he loved peace . But he did not perceive any repugnancy in these two things . * There wan nothing in his elevation to liis bishopric which he spoke of with more pleasure , than its being a proof that decent freedom of inquiry was not discouraged .
He was a man of great softness of manners , and of the mildest and most tranquil disposition . His voice was never raised above its ordinary pitch . His countenance seemed never to have been ruffled ; it preserved the same
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Memoir of the Life of Edmund Law , D . Z > , Bishop of Carlisle . £ 93 ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1818, page 293, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2476/page/5/
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