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 have either the confidence to appear againt our common afety, and be again an advocate for lavery; or the weaknes to be deceived with contradictions dreed up in a popular tile, and well-turned periods: for if any one will be at the pains, himelf, in thoe parts, which are here untouched, to trip Sir Robert's dicoures of the flourih of doubtful expreions, and endeavour to reduce his words to direct, poitive, intelligible proportions, and then compare them one with another, he will quickly be atisfied, there was never o much glib nonene put together in well-founding Englih. If he think it not worth while to examine his works all thro', let him make an experiment in that part, where he treats of uurpation; and let him try, whether he can, with all his kill, make Sir Robert intelligible, and confident with himelf, or common ene. I hould not peak o plainly of a gentleman, long ince pat anwering, had not the pulpit, of late years, publicly owned his doctrine, and made it the current divinity of the times. It is neceary thoe men, who taking on them to be teachers, have o dangerouly miled others, hould be openly hewed of what authority this their Patriarch is, whom they have o blindly followed, that o they may either retract what upon o ill grounds they have vented, and cannot be maintained; or ele jutify thoe principles which they preached up for gopel; though they had no better an author