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was very agreeabiy ﬁn‘priz’dyto fee my
Letter’ riot only Publiﬂl’dj when I began
to ddpair of you in Candour in that;
Point) but vouehﬂtfed a particular Au-
ﬁver : nor was the Satisfaétioul took therein.
at 2H abated by the Sheer in your Title—Page,
where you are pleas’d to call me the Cold’eﬂer
Amazon,- for if Emuﬂ pafs foran Hijybolyzfa, I
have the Vanity to think you are uotthe Her»
Wilma that {hall lead me in Triumpf .

Hadl known you to he a married Man, I
fhouldhave direé’ced my Letter to your ‘Wif‘e ;,
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and foul Language with which your News-
Paper abounds, . fmell much of a Woman:
And whatever your Sentiments may be, I be-
lieVe molt People will be of Opinion, that
had your Wife or your {elf been inﬂruéted
under Dr. Swipe at Edam, you would have
learn’d better Senfe and better Manners, than
it appears you at prefent enjoy. That nei-.
ther of you were bred up in his Pariih, I
{hall not at all queﬁion, but very readily take
your Word for it; becaufe to the belt of my '
”Remembrance, the Doélor’s Parilh is fomes-
fit/hat remote from Billingjgate. .
Why you lhould fancy me to «be only an
'Amammﬁs, Icannot imagine. The Reafons
you give, are the Stile, Spelling, and Poin-
ting,r of my Letter. Do you then think it im—
polﬁble fora Woman to Spell true, and Point
a Sentence right 2 I hope you will not look
on all the Sex with fuch Contempt: And as
to the Style, which feems the only valid Rean
for]; it is eaﬁly anfwer’d by a bare Mention
Of the Names of Sappbo, Mrs. Balm, the
Famous Queen Elizabeth, and other Females,
who have excell’d in the Polite Parts of Lear:
ning, My Mother was excellently well skill’d
_, in the Latin Tongue, and not wholly ign0«
' rant of the Greek,- andl have the Vanity to
think the Education {he bel'tow’d on me, not
thrownaway; ﬁnce my Style in theJudgment
even of f0 feyere an Adverlary as your feklf,
3v? « 1’ ~ ear ,. ,, 7‘- r, ' . V 1003,

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looks not much unlike that of the Ravermd
Dr. Bennet.

I now proceed to Anﬁver your civil Que/235+
om, pag 7. and to the ﬁrﬁl reply; that the
{ole Motive of my engaging in this Difpute,
“was a Love of Truth, and a jui’c Indignation
at that lavage Treatment of the Doctor, by
your pretended Corrqjvondem. So that in An-
lyver to your {econd Queﬁion, Imuft tell you,
that it is not becaufe the Vigour of our Mrzlec
Champion; is exhauﬁed, that I have underta-
ken to carry on the Controverly: But to let
you know, that your lenfelels Caluinnies are
To far from having any Inﬂuence in the World,
that even the Ritz/116 Sex can fee through
your Sophiftry, and detect your Fallacies.

If you expect, as the Third Queilion feems
to imply, that, Dr. Sherlock lhould hintiélﬁ
anfwer you : I beg leave to tell you, that you
are foolilhly Fond of your own Writings,
and blinded with Self—Conceit; elfe you might
rationally infer, that a Divine of his Station in
the Church, has better Employment on his,
Hands, than to throw his Time away in an:
fwering every iiizpertizzeizt [ﬂier-Whiting
Scandal—Morgen It was a great Pieceot Coné
defcenﬁon in the Doctor, to vouchfafe to an?
fwer the ﬁrPc Letter you troubled him with ;
but if you expect you {hould meet with the
fame Regard, every Time that you are pleas’d
to he itarting trifling Objections and Cavils,

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under the Pretenfe of receiving Letter: ‘on
that Head from your Correﬂmzzdentr; I believe
you-feed your felt with vain Hepes, and will
, defervedly- be overlook’d with Contempt,
.‘And now, Sit,» in Anfwer to your laﬂ
Queﬂion, Ideclare, that I am no Suéﬂz'tute of
the Daffor’r, nor have any farther Knowledge
of him, thanby'his excellent Writings: As
alfo, thatI am no Perfon’s Alizaimenfzr; that
the Hand and Argument are not more a Wo— ,
mm, than the Style, Spelling and Pointing,
which you think ‘ﬁnel'l more of the Panda,
than the Dzﬂgﬁ As to the'Contempt, you
throw on the Argument, I {hall leave ev
impartial Reader, after the Perufal of this,
to judge for himlélf, whether it have reallyfo'
much of 3 “70111311 in it; or Whether on the
”contrary, it be not more probable, that, not-
wétkﬂmzding your Pretcm'e, yOur' Wife has
anfwer’d me in Eameﬂ. ‘ .

I would now willingly pafs to the Point in
Controvetfy between us; but ﬁnce you have
been pleas’d .to tell the World of a fecmd
mifmg Letter of mine, and endeavour’d to
ﬁx on me the lmputation-of being a Scold 5
I am oblig’d. not to conclude the Preﬁce,
till I have vindicated my feli’from the Ca-g
lumny. “

I believe had you publiﬂ‘l’d that fammi
Letter, there are few would have found any
Rafting in it ,- for to tell a Perfon an unwe‘r
, come
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“ come-Truth in modeﬁ Terms is far ﬁom be—
ing lo. This Sir, is all I have done: I have
applied the Text of Scripture in the Title-
! {Page Of my Book, to, that more eﬁefz‘nal. Me—
» ﬂood ET propagating Sounder], than the Tongue,
, your icentiour Pen: I alfo told you, that
:Calwnny war your Talent; that neither the
.Deezd, nor the Living, Bzﬂyopr, nor Kings,
.could eﬁ'ape your fervereﬂ Cenﬁere. Thefe, * Sir,
»- as unwelcome as they maybe, are neverthe—
' lefs Truths; and tho’ it may feem needlefs to
prove them fuch to any, that has been your
- Reader for a Month; yet I ihall make good
:the Charge, from the Book now before me,
'Which is, by the by, one of the modeﬂe/Z or
your Performances. ‘ , .,
a And here I pals over your Sneer on
Dr. Snope in the beginning of your AniWer;
(tho’ it might be jufily expos’d, as foreign to
the Purpofe, forced, and ridiculous 5) and pafs
to peg. 14. where you inﬁnuate a Compari—
fon between the preleilt worthy Metropolitan,
.and the Convocation, and the High-Prieﬂ emd
Son/oedrin of the fever in our Saviour’: Time;
by which you would make the World be--
lieve, that they reﬂ in ouoﬂde Performmzees9
have made void the Low ofGod [2} their Ce~
vremonz'er and Traditions, and per/écute ﬁle/l7,
no reﬁt/e aofolute Szzomz'ﬂion to Ibo/e Tradi—
tionr. This, as it is the ﬁrﬂ, f0 is it a very
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v» ﬂagrant Inftance of the Truth of my Charge

againft you. , . i
y The Second is Pag. I7. much of the lame
Nature with the Firlt 5 only to, Calumny,
you have there added a perverting the Scrip-w
ture : For in the Textiby you quoted from
St. john, our Saviour evidently {peaks of the
ﬂaccommanicatiea of his own Difczﬂer by the
unbelieving "3‘ewr. There is not one Word
of the Chriﬁz'aa Clergy following their. Exam»
ple; and Ichallenge you to prove, that they
are fo much as hinted at.
Your Accufation of Dr. Sherlock, for mill
quoting the Bilhop of Banger comes next, in
which Mr. Sykes has ﬁnce been your Second ;,
believing therefore that the Doéleor himfelf
Willanfwer him, ‘1 {hall wave the Point, and
delire you to wait till then for Satisfaétion.

Only I am apt» to think, that it will at laﬁ: .be

prov’d, (as it has once already, in relation to‘
'ris quoting the Bilhop’s Words about our‘Sa-
ivioar’r Example) that, what he has left out,
does not at all alter the Senfe of the Propoﬁ-
tion. _,
The next Calu‘mny is Bag. 28. Where
you afﬁrm, That the High—Church Clergy,

firth ar Arehhé/hop Laud, Dr. Sibthorp, and

Dr. Manwaring, inrohjaaﬁim with their Beef
them the Papz'ﬂr, a’z'd qaz'te fahrvert oar Conﬁr—
ratioa, and f0 far iaﬂaeme King Charles the
Pix/ﬂ, rhat he z‘ara‘a ear limit-ea Monarchy into

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r In: deﬁvotical Drawn}. Here, we have that
, Bleﬂed Martyr, King Charles, branded sy-
[ youwith the Name of Brant; and the excel;
I lent Arthbilhop Land liil’d a Brat/aerro the
isPapiﬁr, and 'Subrverter of the .Conﬂz'rnrz'ont
1 But While the admirable Works of the Royal
l Martyr, and the Learned Cbnference of the
good Archer/790p With Eﬂae'r theﬁefwt, are in
lever-"y ones Hands; your Folly Will, be hif"
:at for venting itfelf in limb fenfelefs Calum-
I nies. There all may lee how far the King
; condefcended to the deﬁnite-rel. Tyranny of his
.- rebellions Snbjeffr ; how he gave away 31:15 till
3' he left himfelt defencelefs; and would have
; complied with any Terms, which he could,
twithout wounding his Confcience, grant &
There they may behold the Prelate with
great Judgment and Learning, triumphin‘g
over the Church of Rainej and ef‘cablilhing the
'Protcyiant Faith on Scripture, Reafon, and the“
Fathers. v y _ , .
The I/Vitne/fe‘r you have appeal’d to, I am
a little .furpriz’d at 5. for ifvany, one read the
:Charaéter’s of the King and Archery/1301173 in my
Lard ‘Clarendon’r Hzﬂory, he will ﬁnd the
‘fvery contrary to what you have afﬁrm’d.
Mr. Nelfon is entirely againﬂ: you; and if no
more than his Preface be conlult‘eds that willng
he fufﬁcient to invalidate the Teflimonyﬁf
your Iaﬂ Winefr Rnﬂaworth ; whom he plain-
1y demonl’crates to be partial and unjul’c. b
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. Iii‘o‘ofe‘rVe,’ thafyou have referred Ire-ate no
Page in any ofthefe Books, as confcioes-of
ache .falfe‘nefs “of ydur Calumny-gi but hate
7 barely namid them, . and left us to turnover
“ten or twelve Folio’s', and‘look for a Needie in
~»¥¢_.Bottieof Hay: ‘ , *

_ were not guilty of the “King: Murtber ; for
the Proof of the contrary, I refer‘, to the
écoufge, N01; which being very_.common, I
. ihall’ not fu'rfeit the“ World with needlefs Re~
petitiOns. The WOrds you quote fromthe
., goth A6? of the 12th “of Charles I. are to far
item being of any Service to you; that they
,. eixp'r'eﬂ‘y r-conifut‘e you- The Murder is there
‘charg’d on Fanatic/e Mifcreantr: And I need
.not tell you, that Fanatic/e is a Synonimous
.Word for -Di_ﬂ?mter. As to it’s being ﬁid,
«they were a: far from being true Pram/farm,-
= a; true "Subjefz‘: ,- yoa may remember, that it,
has long been the Opinion of Wife Men, that
the ”ﬂame-r, the Pretended only Proteﬂamr,
are fecretly carrying of! the Caufe of the Church“
of Rome; and 1mm: Cumin is not the
{ole Inﬁance of a ,7eﬁzitz'cal Scbifmatick‘. ,
That the Pr‘erbyteriam reﬁof‘d the King
{and Monarchy is. equally 'falfe; and the Pail
ifage in the Kigg’y Speech is very, impértinemly”
lintroduc’d‘ to rove it: For there ie not one
"Wm-d about t~ we: Dz'jfemm in it.

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t 7‘ In the ”neXt' Page YOﬁf Ely: the ”ﬂank ‘

 
779: {PR 55‘th x:
t ., :1 cannot but wonder at‘yOur Conﬁdence,
twhenyou tell 1155 Pag. 3.4. That a Churchqf
| England Parliament pul'l’d' down the Churchof
Ir-England Hierarchy. Do youthink; 33:, that,
tell the World ‘ are groWn Fools, that you
! wanid tobb f0 fenfelefs a Lie upon us? Is not-
:this the fame, ,as if a: Man ’ﬂmuld aiﬁrm,q
I that :the Pope. in. the ReigneofHemy V111,,
k brought about the Refomatiom and 'avertaurnﬁ
lthe Papal Supremacy? I dare. fay, ‘ the/One
will as foon be believ’d,“ and'may as eaﬁly,
[be prov’d, astheothe'rg‘“; " : 2 n

‘ . With the famé Air of Wrath, you in the
Efame Page affert, that the High—Church Party,
? {aeriﬁc’d the Doc‘frim of the Church to Ai’Iiziﬂidv
‘mﬁztand Papa-y, and their to much admir’d
1(£07m27:11:62:th and Diﬁ'zpiirwa to a Pope at Lam:-
heth, with a Train of Izzquiﬁtory, call’d a
Gau'rt of High Cozimziﬂioh, Here is another
Jnfnlt 9n the Athes of the Excellent Archhg/hup
Laud : The Charge of P0126735 Ihaveelready
pro-v’d falfe ; as to that of Atwlziniangﬁ/z, if by
it he meant the Ramon/2mm lNotiom in the
Qgeiquartzc'ular; ’C‘crznv‘a-‘umﬂ; as the Archhg'fhoja
~g10rie‘d in maintaining it all his Life; "1::-
we glory in it to. this Day. ' - ,

- The Articlerqf the Church of England, are
very expreﬁ in Favour of it, particularly that
of Predeﬁhmtim, which the Learned Dr. Ben- _
net has prov’d to be, as to every Propoﬁtioni
ﬁltly‘cont‘ain’d in the Whig: bf Arminius:
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The .eHoly Stripmreg a1moPc~in every Page,‘
gonﬁrm _ tbz'r Doc’h'ine ,- and sthe ﬁVt‘z'tz'ngrg-hf ’
ajl the» Father: of: the four ﬁrft «Centurierg;
abundantly eﬁabliih it. *The contrary Do,
chines, are the€St0ical Notiom' of Fate new
Fmﬁpt, the 05d Hercfr of the Ghoﬂicks reruz'v’d 5
yandi‘except the Name of the. Great [ﬂu/tin,-
had‘recommended them to ifome inconﬁderate
Performs, they would long ago have been more
unrverfalty exploded. The Fr-Supmlapﬁtrz‘aﬂ
Scheme-or. Calvin and. thjje,' and the Sublap-f».
faritm of our Modems is as monﬁr‘ous _ a D04
thine, as contradiétory to Scwpture and Rea—
fmz’, attire Pope/b Fanﬁteﬁantiatim; and he
that has embraced , the Former, is well prev.
par’d. to {wallow the Latter. ’ I 'deﬁe you or
any Man, to prove the Contm-Reﬂzanﬂmnt
Doc‘frieter not» to be contr‘adiﬁory to ‘ the
whole Teneur of Scﬂpture, deﬁruaive of all
Virtue and Piety, derogatory to God’r jet/tire;
Truth; Mercy, and Goodneﬁ, feud Blafphemous
inthe highef’c'Degree; : ,
When you fay, Peg. 36. That the Dzﬂeme
ten in King Charles the Hrft’r Reign, were
oh‘lig’d to do What the did, in mere SelﬁDeg
fence, againﬁ the _- zgthhurcb Party, who
treated them with Cruelty almoﬂ egttal to that
ef the. fnquiﬁtion ; I hope you do not expeét
to be believ’d, till you ‘fpecify what that
Cruelty was, and by what” it Was they were
thus inhurnanly treated? ' The I em affur’da.
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'gfyou willnex‘rerébe able to do; your-Scandal
"lies ia'Uﬁirverfali, and you are not able to C16;-
fenggany one particularPointoﬁ-it. , ‘ , 1
eThe prefent Clergy fall next“ under your
Lafh, as Enemiei to the Eﬂahlgﬂament in Church
ﬁnd Stare, e‘ver ﬂew the Revolution, This is"
a Stale Piece of Slander, worn quite thread?
bare, and {0 often anfwer‘d already; that , all,
.Iihall fay to it, is, that you, have the tme
Spirit of the reft of the Whigi‘ in, you, and
tho’ an Ob}e€tion he ever fo often and {o folid‘iy
conﬁned, can Continue it with the fame C071—
ﬁdenee andA/ﬁimme, as if not a Word had
been, replied to it. , This is a Method ufed
by many Dzﬂhm‘ew, and meets with too much
Succefs among the Populate. , »
You’rlaﬁ Attack is on Her late Majeﬂyof
ﬁle-ﬂed Memory; whom you charge with ma,
king 21 treachev-ow am! ingleriem Peace, the
Intent of which, was to Sacriﬁce the three
Natiom, with all the Proteﬂam Intereﬂ in the
lei/arid, to Paper}! and ['Iymmzy. This impze...
dentFm-gery there are few now alive, but can
from their own Memory and Knowledge c011?
fute 5 hand that is afuﬂi‘eient Excufe for me to
{wheat-enlarging on this Head. For Ihzwe
not {'0 much of "for/em} Bumet in me, as to
write merely to acqmintthe Mrlei, with what
they know already better them thy/eif.‘
Iam tired with raking in this Heap of
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mv The ‘PRbFﬂCE;
ihtve forced meito it, that WillIhope (at‘leaﬁ-
with you)“ \be- a fuﬂicient, Aepology for me.
And now having fully- prOV’d vmyi‘i'Charge’ﬁa
"g‘ainﬂ you,- Ibegf leave to repeat part o’Esmy
jecona’ Letter, and mute more tellyou {that
"be the Cape]? you are engaged in, ever ﬂ) jet/l,
it i: but a Scurvy Trick to get a Habit of Ly;
ing for the "Bath. Whether you think Party»
Zeal will juﬁify you in fuch fcandaloaePra
ceeding.r,f1 ‘Ihall not take on me to-‘TJuag-e ,_
but leave you to God and you'r’own Coaﬂ‘ieﬁce;
And now, Sir, I have done with the Pee—y
face, and {hall proceed to the Aafwer, which
you fay, you, are pleas’cl to make to my Let-t
ter, becaafe Solomon admzjer at to aofwer
fame People, left they be wife in their own
‘Com'cit ; that is, to anfwer a Fool according to
hit Folly. Thus do you 'very’ civilly call me,
or rather the Colclaejler Doctor, Whofe Ama-l
naenﬁr'you take me to be, a Fool 1' Pardon
me, if I return not the 'Coﬁgolz’mmt; hecaufe;
Solomon in the preceding Verfe advifes us, not
to aafwer a Fool according to hit Poly, left we
aljobe like unto him. I {hall therefore in the
following Tr'aét addrefs my {elf to the candid
and impartial Reader, and conclude my Prev
ﬂeece to you, with {ubfcribingmyieiﬁ "
f V Tour humble Servant,
The Colchefter Amazon,
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. F T E R ‘adull Piece of Inﬁpid Railery;
A which Ihave in, the Preface conﬁder’d,

' the Author" of tbe'Flying-Poﬂ begins
his Argttment, with an Accufation of me for"
inot having read my Lord of Bangor with
‘fuﬂicient Attention 5 by which means he thinke
Ihave miftaken the State of the Queftion.
:T he Relzgion in Debate, it' feems, is not?
“now- any other, than the Chriﬂz'an Religim
alone, 3 as revealed in the New Teﬂameiit r
Though it was thought by the Generalityj:
that" the Difpute had been about Religiwz 272
geizeml. If I have indeed mittaken my Lord
“of Bangor’s Meaning, 1 am not the only Peta
[on by many Hundreds, that have been ob—4
noxious to‘this Miﬂake. Neither {hall Ihave
much Callie to bin-iii, if aﬁéﬁea’ Chg/Emily)

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2 7796’ FLYINGPOST {Pa/Zed .
"and aﬁudied Darknefy have been too thick {if
a, male Eye to pierce through; ‘

g However I 111311 (as others‘have been forc’izd‘
to do in this Controverfy already) trace‘him
ﬁlth-rough thisotlaer Meaning; and prove, that

by this Change of the Point in Difpute, he
has been f0 far from gaining any thing, that

he has Only brought himfelf to a N6 plm

.ultra, Where it. is imp'oﬂible For him to avoid
owning his Meaning, and as impaﬁhla to ‘13}

. féhd it. This 'iirill be ltﬂibientlyperform’d,

by proving, that even in the Cbrz'ﬂian Relzgi-
on; as reveal’d in the New—Teﬂamnt, the
Hopes and Fears of another World, are not
the only Motives, that render our Attions Re-
ligiow. ‘ _

But before Ienter on the Proof of this, ‘I
think it proper to, vindicate my Inﬂances 'of
the 3m», Ninwz'ter and Sadduceer, from the
[image Milieprefentations of the Ambar of
the Flymg—Poﬂ. '

He in a prepoﬂerom manner chufes to begin
with the End of my Letter, and take my
lal’t Inﬁance ﬁrf’c ,- and becaufe he {hall not ac—
cufe me of beginning with the End of his
”Anfwer, Iihall for once comply with him To
far, as to follow that Order;

In his aim]; Page he fays, that the Ninetuz'te;
believed and repented upon what God had
revealed to them by theMonth of 310nm;
and that the natural inference from thishis,

f.- RE

 
, ‘T/oe FLriNG-Pe‘si‘ Tia/fer}. 3
that Cbiiﬂiam muff alfo belieVe as much as?
they are t‘aughra, , Now if it be, Once made
Evident, (as I {hall fully prove it is tintheﬂSe-
quel of this Difcdurfe,) that Cbrzﬁian; g'haye
the Motives of Joy and Mifery in this‘ Wprld;
as“ well a: in the newt,__pr0pos'd to'ex‘cite
them td Obedience .; this} Argument :Will
prove, that, Clzrz'ﬂz'am; who fay, the Hopes
and Fears of another World [are the [ole grin:
tiple, from Whence Religion»; Aétions ROW,- ‘
- do not believe as inueh as . they ere itailglitg
and confequently are not To truly Ret‘zgiém
as the Ninemiter., . j _ .- d .

But; lays the Pamphleteezj, Bag. 'iqtil’t doie’é
not appear from the Text; that _ the Mizeviiger
were not afraid of lasting-their Soulsj as weir}.
a's their Bodies and Houfesr But, pray? does?
it appear that they were? If not5 let theé‘i;
{ence of the Scripture in that particularj be; a
ﬁiﬂiciem Proof; that it is [a meet Chip/MM hf My
own Brain. In fuch Pdints‘, Idem eff. 21022 em:
(3” 72072 appar‘ere :4 Where there is 116 Text ‘td
prove a Notion; that negative ﬂrgﬂiﬂeﬁét is a
full Cenfutatio‘n dfii ; ,. th'dugh ﬁnd ,poﬁtg‘jve
Words of SérzptzZre canbe prqduc’d, that “ex”
[prefly deny it. There is hd Text of smpmm
which fays in expreﬁ W0rd35 that there “iii. 11:33
Putgatoiy; yet all Pratt/fan]?! think; that ridiz
61110113{.thi0n abundantly reintedqby the 3i;
137266 of &riptu’ré (in that Head; and the 111111;ng
gieﬁcy afﬁliate Texts alle'dg’d by theﬂiﬁfﬂf
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4 c The FLYING-Posi- Tag/fed.-
Beﬁ7dess all this Scrié‘ler aims 3'25 is,»- to
"’fhewa‘fbare Poﬂibilitj of the Ntnerviz‘ex belies
' Ving ‘ai-Euture State.. I 'ﬂlall therefore put
:2 him in Mind of an old"Metap/9yﬁcal Maxim ,~
A Poﬂk ad Eﬂe non ‘v’alet Argumenmm : That
”is, in plizm Englg'ﬂa, an Argument drawn from
‘ the 'Po‘jﬁbz'lity of 21’ Things Exi'ftenc'e‘to its
"f‘dcrfual Exiﬂence, is ir'iCOnciuﬁve. " What "is
'nnore ridiculous, than to argue thus? It. is
’-.pofﬁble that Londonkméty be burnt down to;
Morrow"? Therefore it "wilib'e aétuaily burnt:
"down; It is poﬂibie, that the Thameﬁn‘iay:
. overﬂow, and drown theCity; therefore’itg
_‘ does f0; ‘ What Can be more abfurd and nau—i
' feous than this 27 Yet of this Kind: are them-1
ﬂing Cami]: of this paulﬁy Sr‘ribler. ‘ u ‘ i
,, __ But at 13?: he has found an'\Argument, Whichi
f he triumphs in, and 'Whic’hihe thinks, proves,i
j that they aétually3 hei‘i‘eVed a“ Future State :1
And that is,: that JVinE’Deb"was founded byi
Noah’s - izzzzzzediate 'Peﬁeﬂzy; who being aj
' Preacbe‘r of Eighteen/heft, we have Reafon to}
believe, taught bir Poﬁ'mw the fame Faith he}
entertgih’d himfeiﬁ ﬂit .’ Unbapgj prhzﬂér I1
' Was there no Argument but this; which if
' it' prove any thing, will equally prove; that?
720' Man Ever disbelieved a Future State P'Are?
‘ not all Mankind equally defcended from Neal: .7;
If their being bi.“ :Pcrﬂ'erz'ry provesj‘that theyi
f retain the fame Faith, which he entertain’d ;:
“ how comes it, that there‘a‘re {Ovmany hundred;
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, The heme—POST Toy/feel. 5
~Hereﬁer in the World; {0 many Seek and
Panzer, divided from, and contradiétory to
each other? Were no-t‘the Saddueee: defeen~
«(led from Noah? Are not all the lnﬁdelr, that
ever lived ﬁnce» the Flood, his Poﬂerigy .7
‘Wherein then' lies the Force of, this Argu-
ment? But perhaps, as a certain Free-Thinker
has found, out Men before the Flood not defcene
ded from Adam, {0 you may have made a
Difcovery of Men after the flood not defceizded
from Noah. .

1 . To do you juiticeﬁ Sir, Imul’c own, that
the Strefs of your Argument lies in their
being Noab’; immediate quterity; by which
you infinua‘te, that the Traditian of his Faith-3
tonld not be {0 foon wholly obliterated. To
this Ireply, that it {till remains to be proved,
that that Tradition in ﬂiceeeding Generations
Was preferved uncorrupted, even till the Time
of game. The tohtrary may with great
Reafon be inferrld from the Fate of that Eadie
time, even in the Pafterieyof Shem, the Father
of Aﬂmr, Founder of Niheweh; whom for
his eminent Vertne and Piety, {dine mifzakeni
'COMIIZé’J’lthYI will needs have to be Melchife
deck, King ofSafem. Now we ﬁnd in the ninth
Generation from him, his Pqﬁ‘erii} had in far
deviated from the Faith, that they, not only
dishelieved a Future State; but were ignO-s
rant of the True God; and followed Idolr‘:
infomugh that when. Gad revealid himfelf to

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6 7796 FLYING—POST ‘Poﬂed. .
floraham, he call‘d him out from his Idolatrom
Country and Kindred, and leparated him from
the Danger of being infeé’ced by‘their Contae
. ion. Was not Ni‘z/iroa‘ the great Grahdfon
of Nsab, the Head of that Rebelliom Chew,
who in Deﬁance of the [ﬁlmigbfﬁ projeéted
the building a Tower whole-- Top might
reach to Heaven; thereby thinking to fecure
themfelves from the Danger of another Flood
in ebi; Whrld, which if they. could effect,
they ﬂood in no Awe of any Flames in' the
hex: .3 Where now was am ancerrzepted ”Hag.
dirion ?: What, quite loll and eras’d in the
tbird’Geigeraeim from Noah? How' can it
then be thought probable, that it ﬂiould d6?
feehd pure‘and entire to [0 difz‘ant an Age,
as that in’wl ichjthe Prophet 3‘0an liv’d? Even"
after the giving of the Law, we ﬁnd the,
Scripture: of the Old? Teﬂament, tho’ in the
Hands of the Saddaeeer did not fecure them
from the Disbelief of a Future State : And
Where ‘3; veriﬁed Ride of Faith has fail’d‘,
how much more inﬁifﬁcient will a Traditional ,
one bee ' ' '

~ ' This" may ferve alfo for an Anfwer to your:
Argumentf Fag; 16. where you conclude
from ‘7052’s Belief of a Future State, that it;
cannot be prov’d the Mnemieer- disbelieved it».
For tho’- it Were ever {0 evident, that the Don
{St-tine o"? a Future State Wis pi'elei'ved‘ pure
and entire in the Days of $705.”, who lived, :Js
 

' V The FLYINGPOST spa/zed. 7

{all agree, before the giving of the Law; that ~
#iS no Proof; that it defeended in the fame Rik
. ity to the Cbeﬁzrzporarzer of 3022.415 who hired

ﬁfe: long after the Law” ,V .i .
Imight have objegited, that divers *ofrhe
theﬂ Cbrezrzzezztatorr, particularly Gram/4" and
Patrick, are of Opinion, that the Words of
305, Ch. xix. 25, 6&- refer only to. that full
fAlTurance he enjoyed of a Delixierancefron;
'his prefent AﬁliétiOn, and the loathfome Dif-
leafe, which he then labour’d under. ButI
am not willing to enter into " a needlefs Dilé.
,pute“: And ﬁnce the Church qunglarrd in her-
‘Bltﬂ‘al Oﬂice has applied this Ext to a Future
State, I» humbly, full/nit my private judgment
t‘oh'erwije Determination, and to. th.e_',excela
16m Reafons of the admirable Bilhop Pemfom
‘ If the Experience of modern TraVellers El;
lures us, thi;‘t the meﬂ bur-harem Nations in Aﬁqz,
inow believé. another ~World, that is nothiﬁg
to‘the‘Purpg'ofe; for that proceeds from the ~
Pmmulgaziou or Chriﬁz'uszity 5 fome Remains“
of which, the Learned Dr. yen/em, in his
admirable Treatile of the Excellence and Rea-«7
fwmhleuefr of the Cheri/lien Religion, has large—
ly proved to be fiill pi‘elerved in a Multitude
of Nations, Where the Suhﬂume is clouded
and loﬁin Superﬁitimz andfuﬂu’eliy.
' ‘I come now tdhiS Anfwer to my Argument
from the Sedu’uceer, ii; whigh tho: “he,“ has
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been: very large, Ithall he famewbat brief;
hecaufetall he hasfaid is little to the Purpofe,
«The Queﬁion put to him, on this Head,
in my Letter, was 5 Whether 3139', who 613g
liev’d‘not a Future State, at the Sadducees did
_ got, upon Supgﬂtim of the Truth of zha-Biﬂxop
,o£ Bamgm’s Notion, have my OMzgation' tr
A67; of Rehgion? This he oompi’ains, P. 26,.
‘isfo aiizbzguouﬂy awarded, that he cannot eaiily
fathom my Meaning, I protei’c, I 64721203
fathom hi! ; when in order to prove them {’05
"he would interpret them, whether they could
thizzk themfelyes ohlig’d to Aéts of Religion ,:
Is there one Syllahle in my Queﬁion abou:
. their y'Ihouglatt? 19" it not askid in exptefs
‘Words, whether: they 1mm any Obligation to
[16ft of Religion 5 not whetheﬂhey tibia/{e they
ham or not? W’here then is there any/ivzéi;
guity, but of his \own Inventing .P’ The Trot
"is, he ﬁnds himfelf prefs’d with theSttength
of the Furczguttnentj and to evaded: Repiy2 prev:
tends it Ambiguow: Yet in the fame Phttagz'aph
he unluckily {tumbles/0n the true Meaning 03E
the Qpeﬂion; but not being able toanfwetit,
he ptoves at large a Thing toreign to the
_ Purpofe, ‘viz. That .7793 Sadducees were a
wicked Generation of Vipers, and denied
the Refurreftion. ‘ The gontrary to this, No:
Body" ever maintain’d; I‘ﬂtaﬂ therefor-e pafs
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,.%%T11e Queﬂion is not What the Sadduci’eﬁ Were;
1but what they were obligedto be .: Netwﬁat
:ﬂc‘?! 0f- Keilgion. thﬁydld perfe‘rm’ :9,th Whea‘
iBangor’r Marian, ' that-they: have e no Obligaui:
:93 to Perform. any .9, And whether hi -~ Netiqu-
:be not therefore Erroneous E , . » ,

, Thatfrom the Bgﬂwp’r Notiqiz; if -n€CEKa~i
:‘rily follows, that they weretoblig’drftorm 9246i;
eof £99991 thus prove: No Man is oblig’d
by God, to do that, Which is impoﬂible:
.-;,N0w,if, as the 132/110]? fays,‘ the: Beliet " of ; ano-
gther World is the mly Principle, th'atsic‘an rend"
«ﬁler-an Aé‘ri’on Religious ; then to them'wwho
» believe not a World recounts, the'doingarre:
aligz'ous ﬂc‘f is z'mpcyﬁblag becaufe-vthey want
gthat Principle from whence alone, Religiow
rﬂffiom ﬂaw; and canfequently can no more
rperform them, than a Bird can ﬁywithOut
allele Wings, which £10m enable it to fear
from the Earth: Therefore to thefe. iiizpoﬂiéle’
:ﬂfz‘r of Relzgzion, »they who disbelieve a"-Ft1~f
{ture State,,ar’e not obligld. I have. here fet
:down the Reﬁrlt of the Biﬂwp’r Nation :1 That
r'Of Dr; Sherlock on the contrary, (whichmakm‘
arhe Fear‘off Gad, Whether it haveRegard‘to?
this or the Other World-g , Love and Gratitude
for our" Being and PreferVation, and i all his
iffem‘poral Mereies ;f‘ Principles, from which
:Reltjgiow Aéiiom'mayﬂows) lays on the Sad:
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‘duceer inaifpehﬁhle' Obligations to A5!“ of
_ Religion‘f: whereas-they; according to my Lord

of Bangor’r Beech-£7283 Can be accountable for
nothing, but their“~bare Dirbelief of a Refm:
reéfion; not for thofe Religiom Affr, Whichto‘

:Menfo perﬁladed5 bimfelf afﬁrms to be irizpoﬁ

ﬁble : And I fuppofe,‘ he is not ignorant of
that unimm’izlly received Maxim of the Cafuzﬂr,
Illzpoﬂbilium nulla cﬂ Obligatioi i
in the We1&11_.Page5 {Omething Of an At;
gument is offer’d at, Which I’W’OuId conﬁder,
if the Texts quOted mention’d any thing of
the Sadduceer : But I can. find nothing in the
tholeg‘ﬁrﬂ Epiﬂle ‘10 the Corinthians, that re-:

--lates to them. If it he ‘o‘hjeé‘tedi that tho’

theferfo‘nr difputed‘againftin‘tbe 13th Chapter
of that Epifﬂeg are not the Saddmeer; yet the
Errorthere treated of, is the fame with that
they maintain’d and therefore, that the Argtts‘
ment is {till concluﬁve: I anfwer, that Mr. 077*
Mfr. R—Admth,‘(for whether I am difputing
with the Gentleman, or his“ Wife, the Weak:
nefs of the Argument gives me Caufe enough
‘to doubt) quotes there Texts; to prove, that
the Saddu'ceer coxlld. not think themfelves
oblig’d to Affr of Religian; Whereas, if he
Would confute me,'he ﬂro’uld quote fomea
thing, 'which proves them affually under no
Obligation t‘q A623- of Religion. ‘ Ido not think
my felfoblig’d, when he ﬂies ﬂow the Poiht

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'5 37736 FLYINGéPOST ‘7’0/5651. I 1“
in Difpute, to follow him to other Tepick-s,
lilothing‘at all to the Purpofe. .
~ . From the Belief of another World being?
by St. Paul accounted the chief Hepe of a
ﬁhriﬂian, he would infer, that Dr. Sherlock
Contradié’cs St. Paul; and then asks, Whom I
Will believe. Truly, Sir, St. Paul 5 if he
indeed contrediets the Daffor. Butl deﬁre
you to remember, that the DDc‘Z‘or does not
exclude the Belief of another World from"),
Religiow, nor deny it to be the chief Hope of
‘Chriﬂiam; but afﬁrms it. not to be the Sole,
Principle, from whence Religion; 1467mm ﬂaw
And that St. Paul himfell: afﬁrms the fame,” I
{hall in its proper Place demonﬂrat'e. In the
mean Time, I {hall end this Point, with in»
forming you, that tho’ the Faith of Chriﬂiam
in la Future State be, if there he no {och
State, a: to that Point, vain; it does not?
from thence follow, that there are no Promi“
fesin the Goﬁb‘el, but What relate to a Future
State; which was the Thing you ought to”
have proved. ~
V In his Colleétion from jofephm, Drth
Land Scalzger, my Adverfary contradiéts hin1-~
halt, and gives up the Caufe, by owning, that
the Sadlz’uceer obferved the Law, (that is, did,
{och Religious Aéts as the Law enjoyns). to
enjoy the Témpcml Blelﬁngs it promis’d, and
to elbape the Punilhments denounced to ,itfs,
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12 The, FLYING—POST ‘Poﬂed.
TranfgreiTors. > Here we have Religiom Aﬁimy
flowing from the Hopes and Fears of. tbi:

74707161, . and laimﬂelf confuted by bimfelf. ‘

- Another Infiance of -Self-Contradi&ion in
him, is Fag. Io. where he, in anfwer to my
Queﬁion about the Sadduceer (I fuppofe ignoi
mmly) owns, that their not believing another
World, could not d-ifjoenfe with their Obligae
tions to A615" of Religion. Here he confeﬂ'es

‘ 'what Dr. bbeﬂock and I have afferted, and

leaves my Lard ofBangOr in the Lurch. And

yet, poor forgetful Man, he after writes three

Pages. to prove, the contrary. There is an:
old Proverb about the ‘Neceﬂity of fome
Perfons having a good Memory, which I. wiih‘
he had given me no Reafon for the Applicatia
on of to himfelf. _

_ Having laid a great deal to prove the Sad—~
duceey did not think themfelves oblig’d to
[iffy of Religionl 792y_qlnzglgly, Antagomﬂ thus
concludes: "This is enough to let you fee;
‘F that the Sadducee: could not by their Prin~
“ ciples be oblig’d to any 146i of Religion.”
1192‘! Cbnduﬁm is fomewhat ﬁrange from fuck
Premifer, and in Syllogiﬁn {lands thus :.

— They who think themfelves oblig’d to no
ﬁfty of Religion, are oblig’d to none.

. TheSaddz/zceer thought themfelves oblig’d
to" no Aéts of Religion. \

Ergo. The 'Sadducew ate oblig’d to none};
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"7796 FLYING—POST Toﬂen’. I 3
- ‘Whether the Major of this Syllo'gifm be
not the Tenet of Deifz‘: and ﬂtbeiﬂr, let
every 'one judge for'hin'ifelﬁ Iihallquit this
Head with obferving, that it i: plainfrom the
Beginning and End of his Argument on this
Topick, that he knew the true State of the
thflion; and a; plain, that he conﬁantly
avoided {peaking'to it,‘ became he indeed
had nothing to lay to? the Purpole. '

his now plain, that What he has already ‘

faid, andl have already confuted, can be no
Anfwer to my Quotation from the Proverb: :
And; that this D072 Quixote amufes himfelf
withfeneied Conqucﬂr. .. ,
' The Text fromSelemon remains then hill

in full Force ; and his driving to evince, that
the ﬂew; in his Reign were not ignorant of 'a
Future State, is wholly impertinent, becaufe
I did not afﬁrm that they were, but that they
might do ﬁfth of Religion out of the Hopes
and Fears of thir, ' as well as of the other
World He would fain puzzle the Contro-
verfy, and have it thought, that we exclude
the Belief of another ‘Worldfrom Religion:
“Whereas in Truth; we exalade not another
‘World, but oppofe his excluding the Promijer
fof This. We take the Pronliies and Threat
nings of bath "Her and the other World into
Religion 5 he ebeeluder tliofe, that relate to
Whit Wham, and embraces only thofe, that re-
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late to the other; and therefore his Religion
from which one half of God”! Threatningr and
Promifer if excluded, is truly and properly the
loalf-fac’d Religion. . ’
Having done with the Bij/aop’y KnighteErrant
1 ihall now come to loimfelf, and {late the
Queftion in his own Words, In his Anfwer
to the Committee, Pag. I 3 I. lair Lord/In}? fayr:
“ life are led lgy Chriii to the ﬁrm nﬂamm of
“another [/1772er : The Belief of which, if
‘5 what Alone render: our lve/l Afiions Religiq.
“. or), at it if the Principle within w, ﬁroin
F‘ whence theyﬂow; and from whence, when
they do not flow, they tea/e to be Religion. ”
Here it is afﬁrm’d, that the Belief of another
W'orld is what ﬁlone renders our bell Aétions
Religion 5 which neeeliarily implies, that the
Hopes and. Fears of thi: World-are no where
propounded by our Saviour, as Motives to
Obedience: For if they are, then Aétions
ﬂowing from the Belief of God’s Promiies
in tbi5 W'orld, ﬂow from a Religion; Principle.
And thatwe are led by Chit/i to the Belief of
fuch Promifes, is plain from his own Words,
Matt, vi. 3‘3. Seek.- ye ﬁrﬂ the Kingdom of
God and bir‘Rig/oteozg‘iteﬂr,’ and all thefe thingr
ﬂiall be added zmto you. in thofe Words 3.
‘Futgre State is indeed the ﬁx]? and chief Mo:
five, but not as his Lord/hip aghrms, the Sole
Motive to Righteouinefs, Temporal Bleﬂingt
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are expreﬂy promis’d 5 and becaufe {ome Per-J
Ions triumph in the many Warnings our Save...
our: gives his Difciples of the Perlet'ntioni, they
Inuit undergo; and think that a ﬂrong Proof
of a Future State being the Sole Motive to
Relzgioae Acrfiont under the Chriftian Diﬁtenfar
tion : I deﬁre it may he conﬁder’d, that Chrl/li,
even in the ﬂame Sentence, in which he men-
tions the Cafe of Per/eentionz, promifes his
Difcipies an Afﬂuence of Rinperal Bleﬂlngt.
This appears from Marla X; 29, 30. find Jeiils
anfwered 'ana’ﬁnd, Verity Ifay ante you, There
it no Man, that hath left Hoafc', or Brethren,
or Siﬂew, or Father, er Met-her, 0r ”fife; m:
,Chzldren, or Landr, for my Sake, and the Ge—
ﬂle,‘ Bat he [hall receive an Hundred—fold now
in this Time, Hon/ht, and Brethren, and Si.

fters, and Mathew; and Children, and Lanah, ,
with Perfecutions; and in the l/Verlal t0 conga

Eternal sze. Here our Saviour again iOyne
the Promifes of this Life, with thofe of the
next, even when the Cafe of Peafecation
was inhis Eye: ~And what can be a more evi—
dent Proof, that the Belief of the Promifes.
of another World is not the Sole Principle,
from whence Relzgiom Afliont in the Chriﬁflan
Difpenfation ﬂow; than that, the Inftitator of
that Religion has joyned the‘Promifes of the
Bleﬂings of this Winla' to the Promifes of
thofe in the next, as Motives to our Obedience.

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-~ :1 am fenﬁbleéit may be look’d on as a Bre‘aE-h
of good Manners, and a Piece of the highett '
Arrogance, for a Woman-to contend witha
Bi/hop : I-ﬂtall therefore chute to tfansfer the
Controverfy from my . felt to another Bifhop,
who, when alive, with Chriﬁian Zeal Oppos’d
hie Lord/hip’s Notiom of Civil Go‘vemment;
and heihg dead yet ﬁbea/eeth againf’c this hit~
new Deﬁnition of Religion. The PerfOn I
mean is, the worthy szh'op Blackall of Bleﬂed
1311mm, from Whofe ﬁxty ﬁxth Difcohtfe on
the Sermon‘in the Mount, I {hall quote what
£3 to. any rational Man a fufhcient Conﬁltat'iOn
of the Biihop of Bahgor. .

* Toprove that Temporal Reward: are'pro-f
mifed in the Scripturej as Motives to [stem of
Relzgion 5 that Pious Prelttte quotes the P/‘ezt’e
hziﬁt} Words; The Eye of the Lord it on them.

that fear him, @022 them-that hope in his Men

6?; To deli-vet their Soul from Death, and to
keep them alive tetI‘hmiee, Pfal. xxxiii. I8, :9.
And'again, Pfal. xxxiy. IO. The yet/52mg £3022;
delete/e and [after Hmeger; hut they that feeh
the Lard/hail mt "(meet (my good thitg. And
again, Pfezl.xxxvii. 18, 19. The Lom’ lee/zoom-
eth the Day‘: of the ’LEréght, and their heheri—
temc‘ejhall he for ever. They jhall not he [Ii/hed-
med in the evil Time, and int/ye“ Day; of Fete.
mine they'fhalt he fatitﬁr’o’t '

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,‘1‘: Thefe, [eye that good Bi/hop, {Omeirnay
“ fay‘ are Old Teﬁoment‘ Promifer, andfo do
{‘2 not belong to u: .~‘ B tlet it beconﬁd’er’d;

‘f that God has been pleas’d alfoin the: New ~

f" Teﬂalnent to renew them5 and to giveku‘s

‘F frefh Aﬂ‘urances of his Fatherly' Care, in-

“ protecting and providing for good Men,-
‘ even in this Life. , r . .

“ St. Paul, continue! he, who writing only
‘¢ :to Chriﬂionr, cannot be fuppos’dto have fen-
‘ﬁ couraged them to their Duty by inch Proﬁt

ﬂ

‘f miles, as do not belong to the! , yetfays-
‘? expreﬂy, 'I Tim. iv. 8. that Go ilineji it pro;
‘5 ﬁtohle unto all Thing? having the Promiﬂe:

‘F of this Life, thatnow is, as well asof that
f? which is to come. a

“ His Lordihip goes on to ~-prove, that the

‘5 Temporal Prowl/er of the Old Teﬂamentare

“ not yet out-dated, but do belOng to Chri--
‘C ﬂmnr as well as they did to 3673):. This,

“ he ﬁlith, we are Clearly taught by the Alt-r
“ thor of the Epiﬂle to the Hebrews, Ch. xiii. 5.

‘S where he declares, that the Promife made .

“ to filo/hue, I will never leave thee nor for;
“. fake thee; (altho’ at the Hill making, it
‘9 feemed to be particular and perfonal, made
“ to jojhna alone) is yet to be’underfiood,
“ as an Evangelical Promiﬂe, made to every
‘9 good Chriﬂmn. And that not this Promife
ff only, but likewife all ﬁJch Ternpoml Pro-a

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“ mz’ﬁ’t in the Old Teﬂdment do belong to u:- "
‘-‘ ' Che/2mg no lefs than they did to the plow *
“ ‘Iﬁtaelz'tet; the fame ﬂpcﬂle plainly enough

-‘~‘ intimates in the next Words; "ver. 6. by" ‘
“ his citing another Text from thence, which

“ he lays we alfo may apply to our felves: 30'
“5 that we may boldly lay; the Lord it my
“ Helper, I will not fear what Mam am do
.“_ unto me. ” .

‘1 Thus far that exCellent Preldte; to whole
Argument from St. Paul, 'I beg leave to ﬁlba
join one of the {Ame Nature from St. Peter ,1."
who {peaking of a Bleﬁing, to inherit which
Clot/lions are call’d by God, exprelles the Na:
ture of that Bleﬂing in the Words ofthe Pililﬁ .
mill, Pfdl. XXXiv. 12, 13», 14; He that will” ‘
lo've‘ Life, andfee good Daye; let him refrain
hie Tongue from Evil, and bit Lz'pr, that they"
ﬁned/e no Guzle ; let him eﬁtbew Evil, and do
good,r&c. I Pet. iii. to, II.

' From all this I thus argue ;‘

. That Ac‘z‘ior,‘ whicbﬂozm from d ﬁﬂﬂTﬂt ,
and ﬂeddfaﬂ Belief in the Promzfer of God,-
ﬂowr front a truly Religious Principle.

The Afliom we are moved to by God’r Tem-
poral Promifes, do (or well or tbofe we are
mo‘v’d to by Hi: Eternal) ﬂow from a ﬁrm ijl
in God and ﬂedfdﬂ Belief of Hit Promifer.

t Ergo. The Aftiom we are moved to by God’r
Temporal Promifes, do (or well a: tbofe we

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are mailed ti) by hi; Eterﬁal) flow fmm’a truly

:1Iffihigz’begmﬁtfejc‘f, ‘(éind’hé’f item be deg-.5,
niedl : Can’t fee) git" lollOwg théﬁ’f” deiﬁixg; groin" ,_
a truly R‘éligiqu; Principle, theyfaréiirizb "Reliew
gi’on '; I and if they «are truly Religilih; ”it is falle‘, "
lthat the Belief "of another Worldi-s what ﬁlme-
renders qur’ beﬂSAétions Realigégzgg ”and thax
when they ﬂew riot Efrem theﬂC§ﬁ the?" ceaﬁ
tofbeykelégfion; Fer when ealélo~ téwzzin‘dteﬁin“
God, each conﬂz' grey rm Affim Religieus,

"Elms haVe, I.,.5..lhe\vn, “that, $119»; Bi/liop of,"
Bangor’I‘qunitioﬁ, is; as Dr.'375érl*‘fck (Illegit;
amw‘ Deﬂnitiong'of RJigion. . -

' I {hall dole“ all, 1 With ébkfvihg,‘t11'atif {he
Bi/bopﬂwas really the Doﬁm’r flack, as the}
21th of the Flying-«PM ﬁzgg'éﬂ's"; I Cannot;
ibﬁt congratulate the zvoc‘for iﬁ being {9‘ like ..
‘St'. Cyprian, in relation to’ ﬁrmlliaiz ;' that is, ..
:in' having copied aill‘the Bg'lbqp’: Extrellenc’iex;
and with great Judgment avoided bi: Eff
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* vi'ng 'impotently‘ attachkip Dr. Sher— ‘

, lock’: Reafonr for continuing the Teﬂ-

‘ Act"; I« {hall Vindicate the Deﬁcit,

from his infolent Malice, and addx’a Word,»
or two on that Subje&._ The Printi ﬁle, one.
which the Doc‘z‘or juﬂiﬁesf that Aét,‘ 1"; Self}-
Defence; and fure, no Adherent Of the ' Bin
ﬂap}: of Bangor, that great Patron of Self-1
Defence to the State, Will deny the fame
Priviledge to the Clam/ch. It' is true the
Diﬂi’ntew‘are by fome reprefented, as harm-
lefs People, content with their Toleration;
but the Reverend Mr. Lewis, in his Letter
to Sir john; Smith, has evinc’d the con-
trary, and proved, that they aim at no-
thing lefs, than a total Submerﬁoﬁ to the
Church of England. The Stab; they have

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Yb" often lepeatedi With theii‘y' Pam,;hey

would, 'if' .PéWer" were, in; their "Hands; as.

often iepeat With the Sword. ‘ Their Wri-
tm’ S"‘3"r‘e’ a‘ clear Exiide'nce, land bear 'I/l'lite-
ﬁe]? 'ifgaihﬁ them; that the); m ‘the‘ (Chil-
' ﬁrm bf TIME, who. niartyr’d, the King, and
'pull’d down the" {Epifcopal Hierarchy: And
they are ready at the lid} 0 .pqgtu'nity, to

ﬁll up the Meaf‘zm: of their =albeit} Iniqui—
“tier. Thus it erer was and” ”ever will be
~ with them : And to {how that I am not
‘ﬁngular in this Opinion, 17 {hall note --a

few Sentences from' Parker’s .Ecciﬁaﬂiml
Polity; wrote in the Reign GE'King Charles

1736 Second, which unaanerably prove it true.

They are all. colleéled out. Of his Pift-i

Chapter: ., , ' T . '. , ,

“' No Parr} can" ever? beﬁquieté or, con-

" “ ' tent, as long as it is under,‘ any Other,
“‘ but will ever belheaving and ﬁruggling
"‘ to diﬁ‘nount that Power,‘th211t keeps it

“ down :- And therefore we ﬁnd, that- all

“ Elf/enter; from the eﬂablzﬂz’d'", Frame of

“ Iblzzgr are aIWaysV alTaultingjt With open

“ Violence, or undermining, it by fecret

:“ Praé’cices. -—--—-—- Opprefs’d they are as

“ long ,as they are the weaker Party. ,..._...

_“ It isyajn eternal Truth With them; thatfor

“_ the Godly Parr} not. 'to be @ﬁerlzzdl, i; and

f ever will be Perfecutim.‘—-——;- All 565?:

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'rWh‘eﬁfhan/I ‘SubjECts ‘have a Mind to {Eat ﬂiém-
”fe‘l‘vééﬁ-éedrom the Laws ‘of‘th'eir Prince, they
. can ﬁever. want-this Pretente‘ to Warrant {heir
‘ﬁfobedience; Ie‘ei‘ng there is no Nati’oh in’
the ‘World, that has not divers Laws, that
are, not recorded by the fourEWangeli I. And
therefore, if all human Inﬁitutiom intre'nch
upon our Saviour”: 1(1):eg Preragatz've, they
are, and ever muﬁ be provided with Matters
Of lQuarrel io'difttzrb Government and ‘jzgftiﬂ
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