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is no more than the Common-place Work of reviling the Clergy, and cavilling at fome obfcure Paffages in Scripture; and that the argumentative Part of it is only a weak String of Sophifms, which he endeavours to colour over, and so obtrude upon his Reader. He is fo confus'd in his Method, fo perplex'd in his Reasoning, fo luxuriant in his Quotations, and fo tedious in his Repetitions of, the fame Thing over and over again, that I may venture to Say (what I my self have found by Experience) that it will coft a Man as much Pains to digeft him under proper Heads, in order to perceive what he would be at; as it will do (when once his meaning is found out) to write a full Answer to every thing he has faid materially, and to the purpose.

These are the Writers for Infidelity, whofe Objections against the Chriftian Religion, together with the

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Subftance of the Anfwers, which feveral learned Men have thought fit to make publick, I have endeavour'd to place, on both Sides, in the moft advantageous Light; that the Reader, when he meets with the PoiSon, may be provided, at the fame time, with a proper Antidote against it, and fo pafs his Days fecure against * the Pestilence, that walketh in Darkness, and the Destruction, that wasteth at Noon-Day.

* Pfal. xci. 6.

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