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Rh that since we do not write by Inspiration, we may fail in the Faculty and Power of Writing so much, that the Advantages of our Subject cannot set us upon the Level: 'Tis for this Reason I recommend Classic Learning, and a just Style in Divinity. We see the Effects in those, that are Masters of them: And should an Orator ever rise of Demostheness Spirit, and Tullys Genius, and apply himself as an Orator to Divinity, work and labour his Subject by all the great Topics of Reasoning and Persuasion, what wonderful Productions should we behold? And if the pathetic, persuasive Way of Writing Rh