The little work _On the Constitution of the Church and State, according to the Idea of each_, first appeared in 1830, and went into a second edition in the same year. It is now joined with the _Lay Sermons_ in one volume. To the _Church and State_ are appended _Notes on Taylor's History of Enthusiasm_, and _A Dialogue between Demosius and Mystes_. [LETTER 214. TO ALLSOP March 20th, 1825. My dearest Friend, I should have answered your last but for three causes: first, that I had proofs to correct and a passage of great nicety to add, neither of which could be deferred without injustice to the Publishers, and the breach of a definite promise on my part; second, that I was almost incapacitated from thinking of and doing anything as it ought to be done by poor Mrs. G.'s restless and interrogating anxieties, which in the first instance put the whole working Hive of my Thoughts in a whirl and a bur; and then, when I see her care-worn countenance, and reflect on the state of her health (and it is difficult to say which of the two, ill-health or habitual anxiety, is more cause and more effect), a sharp fit of the Heart-ache follows. But enough of this Subject. I ought to be ashamed of myself for troubling you with it; you have enough frets and frictions of your own. And so I proceed to the third cause, which is that (how far imputable to the mood of mind I was in, I cannot say) I did not understand your letter. Is there any definite service, or any chance of any definite service, great or small, that I can do or promote, or expedite, by coming to town? If there be, let me have a line or a monosyllable _Yes_, and mention the time. I would have set off and taken the chance without asking the question, but that I have so many irons in the fire at this present moment,--1, my Preface; 2, my Essay; 3, a Work prepared for the press by my Hebrew Friend,[137] in which I am greatly interested, morally and _crumenically_, though not like the Modern Descendants of Heber, one of a _crumenimulga Natio_, _i.e._ a purse-milking set; and 4, Revisal, etc., for a friend only less near than yourself. Mr. Chance, I take it for granted, has written to you. My opinion is, that he will be a valuable man, not only generally, but _especially_ to that which alone concerns _me_--_your_ comfort and happiness. He is a self-satisfied man, but of the very kindest and best sort. Prosperous in all his concerns, and with peace in his own conscience and family, I regard such vainness but as the overflow of humanity. I do not like him the better _for_ it; but I should not like him the better _without_ it. Meantime he is active, shrewd, a thorough man of business; _sanguine_ I should think, both by constitution and habitual success: and, under any sudden emergency, I think that Mr. Chance, not so deeply interested, and yet (such is his nature) with equal liveliness in feeling, would be a comfort to you.