The Works of William Cowper / His life, letters, and poems, now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence

by William Cowper

[179] Private correspondence.

[180] Dr. Law, Bishop of Carlisle.

[181] See Dr. Chalmers on Establishments.

[182] Judges xiii. 23.

[183] "Fruatur sanè istâ singulari Dei beneficentià, quæ utinam illi sit perpetua."—Beza, Resp. ad Sarav. p. 111.

[184] Ashley Cowper, Esq., who had recently lost his wife.

[185] Private correspondence.

[186] Vide Poems.

[187] Here followed his song of "The Rose."

[188] Newton's "Review of Ecclesiastical History," so far as it proceeded, was much esteemed, but was incomplete. It had the merit, however, of suggesting to the Rev. Joseph Milner the first idea of his own more enlarged and valuable undertaking on the same subject. In this work the excellent author pursued the design executed in part by Newton. Instead of exhibiting the history of Christianity as a mere record of facts and events, he traced the rise and progress of true religion, and its preservation through successive ages; and thus afforded an incontestable evidence of the superintending power and faithfulness of God.