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ment have made no Progress in Antichrisian Litera-ture, but still subsist and clamour upon the oldStock-, it is time they were compell’d to Silence,and that the World was saved the Vexation ofhearing ‘John soland's Crudities, over and over a-gain.

Another just Motive to that Prohibition, is thegrowing Dijhonejly of the Managers for Infidelity.It is but too observable in the Controversies of Chri-Jlians one with another, that they do not alwayspay a due Regard to ‘Truth. The Interest of aParty and Zeal for Favourite Opinions, now andthen betrays them into Practices, utterly inconsistentwith Chrijlian Morality. But though Reveal’dReligion has not wholly prevented such Enormities,they are visibly fewer in Christian Writers, thanthey are among the Advocates for Deism. Butbarely to point out the many gross Fal/hoods andPrevarications that abound in those celebratedBooks, j she Grounds and Reasons of the ChrisianReligion , and the Scheme of literal Prophecy con-sidered', would fill a moderates olume. And I thinkI have made it appear, that the Editor of the Newsesament , is as faulty in this Respect as any of hisPredecessors. Here therefore I gladly congratulatewith the Friends of Revelation on this Discovery,that such as are least under its Insuences, lhew amuch stricter Regard to smth, than those whowholly abandon its Interess, and oppose its Autho-rity. The former now and then, at a Pinch, havebeen found to misquote and to misrepresent ; butthe latter do this almost perpetually, and sometimeswantonly. The Manner therefore in which the

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