the clergy of St. David's, p. 34. Here the admirable Fauftus, a man of as much piety, and as good morals, as hath lived fince the apostles time, who truly and godly ferved the almighty and everlasting God, through our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, is painted by this eminent hand a man of ill fame; and for no other reafon but because his heavenly religion made him oppose the orthodox berefy of three Gods, as taught in the creed of Athanafius; and piously labour, by the purity of his doctrine and example, to keep the world from corruption.

Let us then be careful to confess the holy unitarian faith. Let us take the advice of Socinus, and be original chriftians. Let there not be in our religion a God compounded of three fupreme Spirits, equal in power and all poffible perfections. Let us worthip the Invifible Father, the firft and chief Almighty Being, who is one fupreme univerfal Spirit, of peerless Majefty; and, as the infpired apoftles direct, let us worship him through his most glorious Image, the Man Christ Jefus; our Redeemer and Mediator, our King and our Judge.

N. B. Though the reverend Dr. Heathcote hath been very unfriendly in his account of the Chriftians he calls Socinians, in his Obfervations before mentioned, yet you are not from thence to conclude that he belongs

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to the Orthodox Party. He is far from it. and therefore I recommend to your perufal not only his Curfory Animadverfions upon free and candid Difquifitions, and his finer BoyleLecture Sermons on the Being of God, but also his Curfory Animadverfions upon the Controverfy, concerning the miraculous Powers, and his Remarks on Chapman's Credibility of the Fathers Miracles. They are three excellent pamphlets. The firft is against the fcholaftic Trinity. And the others on the fide of Doctor Middleton, against the miracles of the Fathers.

Note Reader, Dr. Heathcote's two pamphlets on the fide of Dr. Middleton, and the Rev. Mr. Toll's admirable pieces in vindication of the Doctor against the miracles of the Fathers, will give you a juft and full idea of the late controverfy. Mr. Toll's pieces are A Defence of Dr. Middleton's Free Enquiry Remarks upon Mr. Church's Vindication And his Sermon and Appendix against Dr. Church's Appeal.

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And if you would fee all that can be faid in relation to this matter, get likewise Dr. Syke's Two previous Questions: and the Tro previous Questions impartially confidered; by the fame author.

Remarks on two Pamphlets against Dr. Middleton's Introductory Difcourfe: Tavo Letters to the Rev. Mr. Jackfon, in Anfwer to his Remarks on Middleton's Free Inquiry: And, A View of the Controverfy, concerning S

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the miraculous Powers, fuppofed to have fubfifted in the Chriftian Church through feveral fucceffive Centuries.

These pamphlets will bind into two large octavo volumes, and make a valuable collection of critical religious learning.

Note, Reader, of that admirable work, called Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum, by Socinus, Crellius, Sclichtingius, and Wolzgoenius, 6 tomes, fol. Irenopoli 1656. The first and fecond volumes are the writings of Socinus the third and fourth by Crellius; the fifth by Sclichtingius; and the fixth by Wolzogenius: they are all well worth your reading, as they contain the most valuable and excellent learning; and especially Socinus and Crellius. In another place, (where you will find me alone in a folitude) I fhall give fome curious extracts from the works of thefe great, injured men, and a fummary of their lives.

SECTION

SECTION VIII.

When Love's well tim'd, 'tis not a fault to love;
The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wife,
Sink in the foft captivity together.

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ROM Knaresborough, I went to Harro- The augate again, and there found the following letter, of an old date, left for me.

"SIR,

thor returns to

Harrogate, and from

thence goes to Cleator

"As you told me, you intended to go to in Weft

you

moreland,

to wait

"London foon, and business obliges me to "ride up to the capital a few weeks hence, upon Miss "I should take it as a great favour, if Spence. "would make Westmoreland your way, and through Lancashire to the Chefter road, "that I may have your protection and guid "ance in this long journey.

Cleator, fix miles to

the fouth-west of Wharton-Hall.

" I am, Sir,

"Your humble fervant,
"Maria Spence."

This letter furprized me.

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Yes, dear creature, I faid, I will make Wetmoreland my way to London. At four in the morning I mounted my horfe, and rid to Cleator. arrived there at fix in the evening, and had travelled that day 75 miles; to wit, from Harrogate

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Harrogate to Boroughbridge, 8; from thence to Catarric, 22; to Gretabridge, 15; to Bows, 6; to Brugh in Westmoreland, 12; to Kirkby-Steven, near Wharton-Hall, 6; to Cleator, 6:75 miles. I dined at Catarric on a hot pigeon-pye just drawn, and ale of one ear, that is, admirable, (as Rabelais means by the phrafe, "We had wine of one ear," alluding to the one shake of the head to the right shoulder, when a thing is excellent); and I gave the horses another feed of corn at Bows, the George, kept by Railton the Quaker (an excellent inn, and the master of it an inftructive and entertaining orator). I mention these things for your benefit, reader, that you may know where to ftop to advantage, if you fhould ever ride over the fame ground I went that day. (13).

When

(13) While I waited at the inn, till the horfes had eaten their corn, the landlord brought me a paper, dropt, by a lady he knew not, fome days before at his houfe. He added, it was a curiofity, and worth my ferious confideration.

A MORNING and EVENING PRAYER.

"Almighty and ever-living God, have mercy on "me. Forgive me all my fin, and make my heart one, "to fear thy glorious fearful Name, Jehovah. Guide "me with thy counfel, I befeech thee, and be the

ftrength of my life and my portion for ever.

"O Lord Jehovah, defend me from the power and "malice, the affaults and attempts, of all my ad"verfaries,