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Rh has recoure to his Bible. Neither the anctity of the patriarchs, nor the repect due to old age, as in the intance of the venerable Nahor; nor the tremendous trength of the giants, the ons of Anak, which could daunt the armies of Irael, and defeat, for a time, the gracious purpoe of hewing to pieces the idolatrous nations, and extirpating them from the face of the promied land, can retrain the fallies of his riotous imagination. Although have oftener than once entered our protet againt this purious pecies of wit, we are orry to oberve that it is till well received by a numerous clas of readers. Ludere cum acris is, alas! become a favourite game. The faculties of the human undertanding no longer fall protrate at the ound of miracles and myteries. And the example of thoe who profes eriouly to examine how far the conduct of the favourites of Heaven correponds to the rules of morality, is even more alarming to genuine piety than the neer of the cornful.

A erious charge, I confes! I hould be glad to hear how the author could extricate himelf. I own I did not myelf like his flippant familiarity with the good people of Irael; and having one day, by way of experiment, read Richilda, or the Progres from Vanity to Vice, to a very numerous mixed circle, an old lady, a contant frequenter of the neighbouring meeting-houe in Black-friars, vehemently proteted againt etting Eve’s apple on a level with that of Atalanta, though the latter was of gold purified in the fire; and he declared herelf more candalized by the concluding alluion than he had at any time felt at the lewd- Rh