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 wihed him to have been without; tho’ as thoe eemed greatly over-ballanced by his good Qualities, they did not incline Mr. Allworthy to part with him; nor would they indeed have jutified uch a Proceeding: For the Reader is greatly mitaken, if he conceives that Thwackum appeared to Mr. Allworthy in the ame Light as he doth to him in this Hitory; and he is as much deceived, if he imagines, that the mot intimate Acquaintance which he himelf could have had with that Divine, would have informed him of thoe Things which we, from our Inpiration, are enabled to open and dicover. Of Readers who from uch Conceits as thee, condemn the Widom or Penetration of Mr. Allworthy, I hall not cruple to ay, that they make a very bad and ungrateful Ue of that Knowledge which we have communicated to them.

Thee apparent Errors in the Doctrine of Thwackum, erved greatly to palliate the contrary Errors in that of Square, which our good Man no les aw and condemned. He thought indeed that the different Exuberancies of thee Gentlemen, would correct their different Imperfections; and that from both, epecially with his Aitance, the two Lads would derive ufficient Precepts of true Re-