vi The Preface.

on the Revelations has thrown upon thorn*How well I have performed this goodOffice, must he entirely submitted to theJudgment of the Reader: Who, I hope ,wherever he finds the Defence of the An-cients not entirely fatisjaBory, will he sojust as to impute it to the Weakness oftheir Advocate, rather than to any realDefecl in the good Men themselves.