“In reply to your questions concerning the Life of George Fox, the plan of the work
resembles that of the Life of
Wesley as nearly as possible. Very little progress has been made in
the composition, but a good deal in collecting materials, and digesting the
order of their arrangement. The first chapter will contain a summary history of
the religious or irreligious dissensions in England, and their consequences,
from the rise of the Lollards, to the time when George Fox
went forth. This will be such an historical sketch as that view of our
ecclesiastical history in the life of Wesley, which
is the most elaborate portion of the work. The last chapter will probably
contain a view of the state of the society at this time, and the modification
and improvement which it has gradually, and almost insensibly re-
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“Farewell, my dear Sir; and believe me,
