sumptuously takes upon him to inftruct his Superiors with what he never faid or did; and tho' Common Honefty forbids mean People telling a known Falfity of another, yet there is a Difpenfation in fuch Cafes as our Apologift's. He may throw at random, and who fhall call him to Account, or tie him down to the Rules of Moral Honesty! We could give feveral Specimen of what would be esteemed extremely fcandalous in moft other People; but fhall mention only one here: He charges Mr Hutchinson with tranflating the first Verse of Genefis by that nonfenfical Phrafe of, The Gods in the Summit, and pretends to make a Jeft of him upon that Ache could not know it when he faid fo, and therefore has nothing but his Privilege to plead for faying it; nor any thing elfe for not unfaying it. It is a Breach of the Ninth

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Commandment, bearing falfe Witness; and though he knows now that to be actually falfe, which was a Lie when he afferted it, because he neither did, or could, know it to be true; yet has he not had the Honefty to retract the Charge, but lets the Libel ftill lay at his Bookfeller's, and fo continues spreading Calumny and Falfhood And fo we leave him, with heartily recommending the Apology to the Perufal of every one who takes Mr Hutchinson's Writings in Hand ; and will take upon us to anfwer for (with the Author's Leave) The Defence of Mr Hutchinson's Plan against the Apology.

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What an Oppofition did the celebrated Locke's no innate Ideas meet with? and yet now every Freshman in an University is capable of demonstrating it: And tho' it is a mortifying Reflection to thofe, who fee the cleareft and strongest Evidence for Philofophy and Divinity in our Author, that not one Bishop in England fhould encourage fo noble, fo useful, fo intelligent an Undertaking as we apprehend our Author's to be; yet is it no fmall Point, no trifling Confideration, that among all these great Men, eminent for their Learning and Abilities, not one, no not one, has ever declared against it in Print, or even fo much as glanced an Argument, as far as we could ever hear, from the Pulpit, against his Method of conftruing the Bible; against the Philofophy drawn from thence; or the Ufe he has made of Philosophy

in Divinity. Aleim, Shemim, Cherubim, Berith, are uncontested; and fo we have the permiffive Law of all the Bishops in our Church, to refer Aleim to the Oath, or conditional Execration, the Covenant of Grace between the Ever-bleffed Trinity was confirmed by. To conftrue Shemim, Placers, Difpofers, the ruling Agents in the material System; and Names or Representatives of the Rulers over them and us. To make Berith He, or,

that which purifies; fo the Purifier or Purification. -The Cherubim, as explained to be, an Hieroglyphick ; a facred Image to defcribe, as far as Figures could go, the Aleim, and Man taken into their Effence: To us it is a very great Satisfaction to confider the Conduct of our Superiors in this View, in this Particular. The Bishops permit us to ftudy the Hebrew Scriptures, tho' they do not encourage it; they permit us to read Mr Hut

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chinfon's Books, tho' they do not advife it; nor (in publick) read them themselves; no doubt but they are acquainted with the Purport of them. But we (the Editors) have declared, that fome few Perfons, eminent for their Learning and Station in the Church, have infinuated, that they had Objections fufficient to overturn Mr Hutchinfon's Plan; and it is faid, that one or two others (now living) have expreffed their Difapprobation in strong and pofitive Terms, in private Converfation, and difcouraged the reading of these Books; but as nothing appears in publick to juftify fuch Cenfure, it is to be fuppofed, that they have looked into the Books, and fee not that Cause of Diflike they might think there was in them; and fo fuch Difapprobation, if really expreffed in private, is not to be looked on as their Sentiments.

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