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Rh I have troubled Your Lordship with these great Men, not that I think You will ever write Sermons, but that You may judge of the Writers; and as far as their Style may be proper on other Subjects, they are able to give You a true Taste, and a right Turn of solid, and ﬁne Writing.

Your Lordship, however, may on many Occasions write as a Christian, tho' not as a Divine; and whether Your Pen shall delight in Poetry or Prose, the Subjects You may choose, and the Thoughts which are natural to every Sacred Theme, are so far exalted above the Heathen Poetry or Philosophy, Rh