Hoxton.
[Footnote 2: This remark especially applies to the _Answer_ to the fourth
of the _Theosophic Questions_.]
[Footnote 3: Among the papers of this lady were found, after her decease,
several letters to her from her nephew, Edward Gibbon, the historian,
and his friend Lord Sheffield, from which it would appear that the
religious views of the former had, at least from the year 1788, undergone
considerable change. From one of these interesting letters, shortly
to be published, I have been kindly permitted to make the following
extract:--"Whatever you may have been told of my opinions, I can assure
you with truth, that I consider religion as the best guide of youth, and
the best support of old age; that I firmly believe there is less real
happiness in the business and pleasures of the world, than in the life
which you have chosen of devotion and retirement."]
[Footnote 4: William Law, in the _Appendix_ to the second edition of
his _Appeal to all that Doubt or Disbelieve the Truths of the Gospel_,
p. 314., 1756, mentions that among the papers of Newton (now in Trinity
College, Cambridge) were found many autograph extracts from the _Works_
of Behmen. This is also confirmed in an unpublished letter, now before
me, from Law to Dr. Cheyne in answer to his inquiries on this points. Law
affirms that Newton derived his system of fundamental powers from Behmen;
and that he avoided mentioning Behmen as the originator of his system,
lest it should come into disrepute.]
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