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 In the mean time, Sir, methinks you are too good in putting me into uch company, and, under the diguie of cenuring my writings, have paid them a compliment much greater than they deerve.

But, if you incerely deigned this as a mark of your dipleaure, and did it with a cordial intent of uppreing my book, I am till more uprized that you hould not expres the one and proecute the other in a different manner; ince the examples of many ages, and your own learned experience mut have convinced you, that thee ends are much more effectually obtained by ilence and contempt, than by publick cenures and prohibitions, which (as Bihop Taylor well oberves) will always be found to inhance the value of a book, in which there is nothing vicious or immoral: and this, I am ure, cannot be proved to be the cae of mine.

Whatever diervice therefore you may imagine to have done me in my reputation, you have done a real ervice to my bookeller, who is not, I'll aure you, at all backward in his acknowledgements of this favour; nay, I ometimes think him too