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In Lathbury's History of the Nonjurors , cap. vii. p. 303., he is thus mentioned:
Dr. Hinds, the present Bishop of Norwich, in his History of the Rise and early Progress of Christianity , Preface, page xv., 1st edit., thus speaks:
Lord King wrote his once celebrated Inquiry in an honest and candid spirit, as the result testifies; but his research was partial, and led him to adopt the congregational principle of the Independents. In Mr. Sclater's reply, principles scarcely less erroneous may be pointed out; yet, as far as the controversy went, he was right, and his opponent, by an act of candour perhaps unexampled, acknowledged himself convinced, and gave Sclater preferment for his victory.
Lord Campbell, however, in his Lives of the Chancellors , vol. iv. p. 369., discredits the idea of this conversion. He says: