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Rh Error ﬂow all the other Vices and Corruptions of Writing; Matter foreign to the Subject; wild, incoherent Fancies instead of Thought, and Expressions that have no other Commendation, than that they are as Childish as their Thoughts. What crude undigested Volumes of this Sort have we seen? How many tedious Sheets without Argument or Consistency? Such, my Lord, are many of the Dissenters Writings in Point of Faith, Doctrine and Practice, tho' we have but few of their Practical Pieces, and those we have, that are of any Value, were written by the best Pens among them.

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