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 Having poken thus much like a child of this world, and frankly acknowledged my elf in the wrong, as uch; give me leave to declare how far I thing my elf in the right, uppoing for once, that truth and reaon, abtracted from all other coniderations, were to be the umpires.

The wordly-wie and the prudent of this generation conider things only as they repect their temporal interet and advantage, without any regard to right or wrong, truth or falhood, any farther than they conduce to their corrupt purpoes, and elfih aims. But it is the part of a Scholar and a Honet man, to conider things intrinically, and to make Truth, Reaon, and Equity, the tandards of all his determinations. {{--))Let us, therefore, put the quetion before us in that light, and ee whether the preent undertaking is blameable or praie-worthy, when thus et in view.

The only two things to be conidered in this enquirey, are the matter contained in the following heets, and themanner in which it is treated.

As to the {{sc|First}}: If the facts I have mentioned are true; if my arguments, upon thoe facts are jut and valid; if the practices I have condemned are really unwarrantable; and the whole tenour of what I have written tends, in its nature, to the Reformation of the univerity, and the interet of Loyalty and true Learning, I think I seerve the thanks, intead of