John Ryland, Jr., Bristol, to John Rippon, Grange Road, Southwark, c. 1802.

My dear Bror

Do not yet make any public ado about 2 or 3 hopeful Candidates for foreign Service, who are going to Olney – It is needful on various Acc.ts for all to be still.  I like well all that I have seen of them –

I suppose the Ryeford People will be glad of 50 or 100 of the Sketch of my Sermon – They applied last week for its being printed – but I can do no more than I have done – It would also never answer –

Mr Booth complains of Morgans Confession as affectedly novel, and defective –

I set by post the Letter wch you declined delivering – he did not seem offended at any thing I said – and avers that he never tho’t Mr F. an Arminian, nor call’d him so – and Mr Arnett denies he ever call’d him so. – But he thinks Mr F. has adopted some of Rich.d Baxter’s leading peculiarities – and requests my opinion of the passages to which he referr’d, because being a manager of the B.t Fund, he cannot consistently with the Constitution of the Fund be active in placing young men undr a Tutor of Mr F.’s pres.t Sentim.ts   &c &c

I suppose I shall write to him by Mr Gray, but I sh.d despise myself for ever if the Gain or Honor of 2 Stud.ts could make me subscribe a Condemn.n of Mr F. as a term of obtaing Mr Fuller’s Booth’s Vote and Interest –

It is to me a firstborn of Wond.rs that a Man of Mr Booth’s Godliness can be induced to head a party to prick a Man in the back who is so actively employ’d in opposing the Armies of the Aliens on every side of the Walls of Sion –

But I have no time for more on this head – How is it you have given no title for Vol. III? When do you return our Books?

I am

Your’s affectly

J. Ryland

Text: MS. II.c.5.(18.), Congregational Library, London.