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154 also in the Simplicity and Elegance of their Style, in Brightness of Thought, and Beauty of Expression.

The Famous Tillotson is all over Natural and Easy in the most unconstrained, and freest Elegancy of Thoughts and Words: His Course, both in his Reasoning and his Style, like a gentle and an even Current, is clear and deep, and calm and strong. His Language is so pure, no Water can be more; It floweth with so free, uninterrupted a Stream, that it never stoppeth the Reader, or itself. Every Word possesseth its proper Place; we meet no hard, unusual, mean, or Rh