"I never heard that it was published, nor have I been able to meet with
it in MS. The great learning and cool judgment of this prelate, and the
entire subjection of his imagination to the revealed will of God, make
the loss of this treatise much to be lamented."
Could any of your correspondents offer any suggestion, or supply any
information, which might throw light on the subject, or might give a clue
to the lost manuscript? The treatise referred to {67} might possibly still
exist, and, even if without Ridley's name, or in an imperfect state, might
yet be identified, either from the handwriting or some other circumstance.
Do any of your correspondents possess or know of any MS. on Election or
Free-will, of the time of the Reformation, which might possibly be the
missing treatise? Things turn up so curiously, in quarters where one would
least expect it, and sometimes after more than three centuries, that one
would willingly hope that this lost treatise might even yet be found or
identified.