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Minor Queries with Answers.
"_A Letter to a Convocation Man_" (Vol. vii., pp. 358. 415.).--I beg to
thank "N. & Q." for the answer to my inquiry respecting the authorship of
this letter. I should be very glad to learn further particulars respecting
Sir Bartholomew Shower. Was he a member of the House of Commons, as the
author of the Letter intimates that he himself was? I shall also be very
thankful if TYRO, or any other correspondent, will answer for me these
Queries, suggested by the same Letter.
"It was the opinion, indeed, of a late _great preacher_, that
Christians under a Mahometan or Pagan government, ought to value the
peace of the country above the conversion of the people there."
Who is the preacher here referred to?
Who were the authors, and what were the titles of the many _Defences_ of
Sherlock's _Vindication of the Holy and Ever Blessed Trinity_, and _The
Divinity and Death of Christ_? *
And what farther is to be learned of Mr. Papin, a Socinian, who jointed the
Church of Rome about that period? +