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Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness
Joanna Baillie to William Harness, [1841]
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Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.
Chapter XII.
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“My dear Mr. Harness,

“I am very much obliged to you for your friendly present, and beg you will accept my best thanks. I have read your excellent sermons on the ‘Image of God’* with much satisfaction, and hope they will find many readers who will agree with you as heartily as I do. You have made out your argument clearly, both from reason and Scripture, and I hope it will have a good effect on some of the gloomy Calvinists of these days, who seem so intent upon establishing eternal damnation as the decreed portion of the greater part of mankind, and are anxious

* Four sermons delivered by Mr. Harness at Cambridge when Select Preacher.

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to cast a kindred gloom over every young person with whom they have influence.

“Was the subject given you by the University of Cambridge, or was it your own choosing? A more useful one could not have been taken up at the present time.

“I hope you and Miss Harness are well, and offer my sister’s kind regards to you both, joined with those of your faithful friend.

“J. Baillie.”