Page:A Letter to Adam Smith on the Life, Death, and Philosophy of his friend David Hume (1777).djvu/27

 against what Religion his shafts are levelled, under that name. But, Doctor, do you believe, or would you have us to believe, that it is , who calls us out of the world, at the appointed time? Doth not call us out of it, who sent us into it? Let me, then, present you with a paraphrase of the Wish, as addressed to, to whom it should, and to whom alone, with any sense and propriety, it can be addressed.—Thus it runs—

", I have only one reason why I would wish to live. Suffer me so to do, I most humbly beseech thee,