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 let those who are in danger of infection from them, attend to the golden aphorisms of the old and orthodox divines. "Sentences in scripture (says Dr. Donne) like hairs in horsetails, concur in one root of beauty and strength; but being plucked out, one by one, serve only for springes and snares."

The second I transcribe from the preface to Lightfoot's works. "Inspired writings are an inestimable treasure to mankind, for so many sentences, so many truths. But then the true sense of them must be known: otherwise, so many sentences, so many authorized falsehoods.

  Our modern latitudinarians will find it difficult to suppose, that any thing could have been said in the defence of pelagianism equally absurd with the facts and arguments which have been adduced in favour of original sin (taking sin as guilt; i.e. observes a socinian wit,