Tim. Then first of all Sir as to the Nobility he may Argue That has the King his Crown so have the Nobles their Coronets Has the King his great Palaces so have They Has the King his Robes so have They Has the King a Coach and Six and a numerous Attendants of Lackyes and Foot-boys so have they Nay they have as many Ears and Eyes as the King has and called by the same Name too and what is most dangerous of all they have as many Fingers and Toes and Nails as the King and who knows how soon these bold Men may climb up into his Throne and scratch out his Majesties Eyes Judas Upon my word Sir I think this is well thought on my Friend will improve this I 'le warrant you for he loves the Commonwealth too well not to hate the Nobility But pray Sir how shall he make it out as to the Chancellor and Twelve Judges Tim. Easily enough Sir thus Has the King his Scepter my Lord Chancellor has his Mace Has the King his Purple the Judges have their Scarlet Has the King his Throne they have their Benches Nay Does the King wear a Doublet and Breeches so do these Men too And what is worst of all as if they intended to starve his Majesty these Conquering Judges have Thrust him out of his own great Refectory or Hall where all his Ancestors did constantly Eat and Drink and have there erected a Committee of Twelve to determine of all his Majesties good Subjects Lives and Estates And this Committee of Twelve being as nimble in wresting a Statute as any of the Committee of Six is a Text to their own Advantage get great Estates Themselves whilst many Honest Men Live and Dye Beggars Nay what is more than all this These Conquering Twelve will not admit his Majesty to sit in their Courts so that his Person is as little seen and known there as his Name is heard of in the Bishops But like Moses to Aaron these Men make themselves Gods to the King and say Hitherto shall thy Prerogative come and no further And what is more than this still when these Conquering Twelve have a mind to shew their Power abroad they take a Jaunt once or twice a year through the Kingdom and hang up so many of his Majesty's Subjects that 't is to be feared that in a little time his Majesty will be King but of a very small moyety of his People And for this doughty Service of theirs I may honestly say without the help of a Whetstone as in Dr. S's Case they have sixteen hundred pounds a year a Man whilst Honest Mr. Johnson Starves upon Charity Judas Pray Sir what would you advise my Friend to do in this Case Tim. Why your Friend may Sir if he pleases the next time he comes up to the Session of Parliament but advise his Majesty with the Committee of Six Page 31. to Dissolve this Committee of Twelve and he will then be King both of the Clergy as he says and Laity too And fix the Obedience of all his Subjects on himself exclusively For on these two hang all their Law and their Prophets But were they but once Dissolved his Majesty need but Ask and Have Whereas 't is plain now that these two Conquering Committees of the Clergy and Lawyers cast an Awe upon the Sovereign Power and suffereth it not to provide for the Common Good of the Subject but will appropriate the Salus Publica and Influence the Government to serve their own Particular their own Private Ends as this Author has most admirably worded it page 31. Judas Really Sir you have hit the Nail on the Head and don 't you fear but assoon as the Times will bear it my Friend will be at the Lawyers too as well as the Clergy He has given you a smart Touch of his Inclinations that way already page 23. where he calls the Attorney General and Judges so many Court Bloodsuckers and by Consequence as very or worse Tyrants over the Lives and Estates of the People than the Bishops are over their Consciences Tim. But now I have thought better of it Sir I think my self bound to give you Notice that there may be a little Danger to your Friend from my Advice for the Judges are of the Fundamental Constitution of this Government Jud. As if my Friend did not know that the Bishops were so too Alas Sir I have heard some wise Men say that there is but One great Fundamental either in Church or State Tim. Pray what is that Sir Judas Every Action of your Life tells you Sir 't is Self-Interest And can you think Sir so accomplish'd a Person as my Friend is will be frighted only with a Hard word fit only for the Amusement of the Ignorant Vulgar If he has taken that Courage Sir to Examine what he believes and will not submit to your Fundamentals in Religion do you think he will boggle at those of the State Under the Rose Sir it would make a Cat laugh to hear you talk of Fundamentals Tim. Nay Sir if your Friend shall think it is for his Interest let him do it I shall not hinder him Judas But pray Sir let us look back a little Do you not think that my Friend has by the last Argument plainly demonstrated that the Bishops of England Rival as he says the Sovereign Power Tim. Truly Sir I cannot as yet bring my self to believe that living in a pretty good House with a little Honour and Power by the Bounty of his Prince can make a Man a King Nor do I think that Kings would have been so weak as to have bestowed These Honours on the Bishops if they had believed that at the same they they had made so many Rivals of their Power Methinks this Author should have shewn some Mony they had Stampt have produced some Bills they had Past He should have named the Embassadors they had Sent and Received the Wars they had prolaimed and the like Judas The Wars they have proclaimed Sir pray who are they at Peace with By the Abjuration of the Covenant and other Acts he tells you Page the 9th That they proclaimed War against the Presbyterians and beat them out of their Livelihoods and after that drove them five Miles distance from all Market-Towns And that King Charles the II. was not able to support these his Loving Subjects against the Power of the Bishops And Page the 8th he tells you That by a new Church Device or Law they have deprived the rest of the Dissenters of the Priviledges of their Country to which they were Born and Pages the 18th and 19th That they have proclaimed War against the Honest Deists too because they will not believe Things which are in their own Natures Absurdities and impossible to be believed such as the Doctrine of the Trinity and other unintelligible Mysteries which serve only for Amusement and not for Instruction And lastly Sir he shews you plainly That they
pulled the Nut out of the Fire with the Cats Foot but both the Action and Design was wholly the Monky's and not the Cat 's and this Gentleman makes so many ugly Grimaces through his whole Pamphlet against all Christian Churches as well as that of England that it is an easie Matter to see who was Master of this Movement 'T is true said he he does sometimes seem to boggle a little at the Deists Arguments brought against the Truth and in Scandal of the Christian Religion but he does it after such a yawning rate that you would believe he were more than half a-sleep when he did it But however it be as to that matter yet all they bring against the Church of England he swallows whole and does not only allow but improve them So that whatver Disguises he would appear under in other Respects yet all that is said against the Church of England is plainly his own and ought to be so esteemed And therefore said he let him put on as many Skins as he will we see his Ears still as the Man knew well enough who it was that stunk though the Woman said 't was her Dog But pray Sir said I how can this be When Page the 8th we are told that he belongs to the Church of England and that it was well for him he was of the Bishop's Church for without a dutiful Allegiance to the Bishops he could not hold the Place he now enjoys I am glad Sir said my Friend to hear that some Men may hold Places under the Church of England that are not of the De Facto-ship And this is the only Instance I think though I believe much against his Will and Knowledge that he has confuted the Objections he made by the Deists against the Church of England For by this Instance he hath let the World see that a Man may hold a Place and yet pay very small Duty to the Bishops Not that I doubt said he but that he is old enough to hold a Place under any Church whatever and be their Shiboleth the Jure Divino or De Facto or any other Title he is wise enough to hold fast what he has only it may be he had rather their Shiboleth were the Title of the People that so the King might hold his Place under him And as for his belonging to the Church of England he may Sir said he for all as I know if you will allow Judas to belong to Jesus and the twelve or Ascarides to belong to the Body of a Man After he had said this Sir said I we will have done if you please with the Title and I will beg the Favour of you to give me your Judgment of the Body of the Discourse Judas It is what I have been long a waiting for Tim. I tell you then Sir said he that if you will believe all this Author says you may believe enough if only what he proves you can believe nothing For if you will not take his Word for his Stories there 's an End of them and I dare boldly say that take ten Pages together through his whole Book and there is hardly one Word of Truth in them or if there be it may honestly be said of him what he colourably says of the Deists Page the 14th that he stretches his Conclusion beyond his Premises The main of his Building is raised on the Shiboleths as he calls them of the Church of England The Doctrine of Non-resistance and the De Facto Title there is a little Colour of Truth in the First in the last there is none at all So that if you do but rightly state the former and barely deny the latter his whole Structure falls about his Ears and he is buried in its Ruins The rest of his Book is most of it Personal Calumniations just said and never proved and for the greatest Part as false as the Foundations of his Building are rotten In short Sir said he it is a Discourse written with that little Truth and less Argument with that incomparable Malice against all settled Churches particularly that of England against Christianity it self in all its holy Mysteries more especially that of the Divinity of our Blessed Saviour that I cannot think those Papers can deserve any better Fate than to expire in a like Place where the Authour 's famous Ancestor Arius did and Sir said he I honestly confess to you that those I had of them have sometimes since given up the Ghost Thus Sir you have heard in part the Thoughts of my Friend upon this Pamphlet pray now before we go any further what are your Thoughts of him Judas Why truly Sir to deal plainly with you I think him a Priest-ridden Ass one that has more Ears than Brains that hears and receives whatsoever the Priests please to put into his Head and has no Judgment to distinguish of things But as for my Friend the Author of this Pamphlet so I call him for so he is I think him next the Honourable S. R. H. the best Distinguisher in the World He had that Acumen Ingenii from his Infancy that he was used to slit Motes in the Sun when he was but four Years old and now he is above threescore he can he says slit a Hair without Spectacles In short Sir I believe that you cannot but see that he has distinguished so nicely between Religion and Priest-Craft that he has made all Ambitious Priests to stink even from Aaron down to this Day And has turned the Edge of the Church of England's Caution to young Travellers Page 5th so sharply against their own Throats that he has distinguished them forever out of their Gains that way by making it plainly appear that there are as many holy Cheats amongst the Clergy of the Church of England as amongst those of Rome And now Sir since you have had my Judgment so freely of your Friend pray let me have yours so of mine and of his Discourse Tim. I will Sir as far as concerns the Church of England but no farther let others answer for themselves And I will do it only on this Supposition too that when I charge this Author with what is said against the Church of England you do not reply that it was said by this or t'other Deist and not by him For besides that this would breed an endless Confusion in our Discourse if the Charge that is made against the Church of England be answered it matters not under whose Name it be done But I cannot think of a juster Way than doing it under this Authors for the Cause and Quarrel is wholly his though like a Coward he hides his own Head and thrusts other Men forward to fight it for him Do not think therefore Sir that in the Judgment I shall give of and Answer I shall make to this Pamphlet that like a Gladiator I will go to fencing with half a dozen Men at once when 't is obvious that all the Thrusts they
make against the Church of England are directed by this Author's Hand Or be the Arguments whose they will the Malice 't is plain is purely his Judas I do not know Sir how my Friend may like this Dealing but if you will not be led I cannot drive you you must take your own Way Tim. Then Sir to what you said last I reply that notwithstanding what this Author hath said blessed be God the Throats of the Clergy of the Church of England are pretty well yet but how they would be if this Author had his full Swinge at them I cannot tell But pray Sir by your leave a little Did the Difference between the Church of England and the Dissenters in Bishop Laud's Time shew the young Traveller upon his Return that they were both Cheats Pray what then Sir must a young Traveller think now upon his Return of the Deists when he shall read their bitter and malicious Invectives also against the Church of England Will he not think that they now as well as the Dissenters formerly are contending with the said Church about Power and that there is Knaves-Craft as well as Priest-Craft and that Deism is as very a Cheat as they say the Christianity of the Church of England is In short Sir our young Traveller seeing all Christian Churches exploded by these Men and in the mean time observing so much Malice and Bitterness in their Writings against all Perswasions but those of their own Sect pray Sir what must this young Gentleman do if this Man's Argument be good but turn Atheist and leave them all Once more Sir what if our young Traveller upon his Return should find an Army of Factious Republicans in Rebellion against the King and Parliament and the King and Parliament in Maintenance of their just Rights and Laws in Arms against them Must the young Traveller presently conclude that this is only a Contest for Power and that the King and Parliament are as very Cheats as those Rebels And that their Controversie at bottom only is How they shall make the best Market of the People Will he conclude that Government is nothing but a Piece of Kings-Craft and that Government and Governours are Cheats both alike Will he conclude that as by reason of the zealous Contest between Archbishop Laud on the one Part and the Presbyterian Kirk on the other he will be of no Religion so by reason of these Controversies between the King and the People he will live under no Government Will he therefore betake himself as if this Man's Argument be good he must to Hobbs his Natural State of Independency and like a Bear or a Wolf retire to Caves and Dens and bid Defiance to all Mankind Or will he not rather as he ought and as he will if he have made any Improvements in his Travels Arm himself in defence of the King and Laws of the Land against those Factious and Ambitious Rebels whose only design is to be uppermost themselves But to let this pass Sir that which troubles me most is to hear this Author so positively affirm the Church of England to be but one Great Bulk of Imposture and that all her Priests to a Man except Mr. Johnson are so many Knaves and Cheats At this Rate Sir he must believe the Church of England to be the Church of Hell as well as the Church of Rome and for all as I can see by this Charge must have a great many more Devils in her than she has Judas Why truly Sir my Friend does verily believe the Church of England so to be and so he will call her assoon as he can do it with the same security he now does the Church of Rome Nay Sir I tell you further that he believes all setled Churches in Christendom so to be For he tells you plainly Page 27. That 't is the trick of all setled Churches to take away the Use of Mens Reason to render them Slaves and Vassals to their Dictates and Commands and what are these pray that do so but Churches of Hell But particularly as to the Church of England he has proved it to a Demonstration that she is so Arrant a Cheat that she has no other Ends than to make her self Rich and Great Tim. If this be proved Sir I am his Convert But pray Sir does this Author mean that the Church of England Cheats us of the Use of our Reason because she does not teach us to believe that one of his Friends Page 25. or rather indeed himself can write as good a Moral as our Saviour Judas We will let that pass at present Sir if you please and examine this Author as near as our discourse will permit page by page and if I do not demonstrate to you that he has made it clearly appear that all setled Christian Churches are but so many Cheats but more particularly the Church of England I also with the rest of the Fools will give up my Reason to them Timotheus If you do Sir I am your Proselyte and will take this opportunity to recover the Use of mine Judas We will begin with the Church of England Sir I told you that the main end of that Church was to make Themselves Rich and Great nay that they do as my Friend says even Rival the Sovereign Power For the proof of this see Pages 6 7. The Bishop's House says my Friend like that of the King 's must be called his Palace he must keep up his Claim to the Miter and Crosier to Vie with the Crown and Scepter The Title of the King's Courts is Anno Regni nostri of the Bishops Anno Consecrationis nostrae In short is the King Enthroned The Bishop is Enthronised Has the King a Divine Right So has the Bishop c. And now what think you Sir Is not this Argument a plain Demonstration of the Ambition and Pride of the Bishops Is it not worth its weight in Gold as scarce as Mony is now Tim. It may be Sir for all as I know and yet not be worth much neither Judas Why do you think 't is of no weight Sir Tim. Undoubtedly of very great and strength too The whole Convocation must needs sink under the Burden of it Another such Barrel clapt under the Church of England would blow her up infallibly But now I think of it Sir this Argument puts me in mind of two other sorts of Men who if this Man 's Reasoning be good seem as dangerous to the State as the Bishops and Clergy And you might do well the next time he comes up to the sitting of Parliament to advise him to take them a little into his Consideraton Judas Pray who are those Sir Tim. Why the Nobility and Lawyers especially the Lord Chancellor and the Twelve Judges Judas But pray Sir how do you think my Friend may make this out for if it can be done I can promise for him for next a Priest he hates these Men at his Heart
proclaim War against King William by allowing him only a De Facto Title as the Principle of their Obedience Page the 13th And that this is now the Shiboleth of their Party as Non-resistance was formerly and that none must be promoted to Church Dignities but such who come in upon this Title only So that 't is plain as is said Page the 12th That the Church of England is a Party and are at War with all but those of their own Perswasion and have their Watch-words to know one another as well as their Church Devices to destroy all others but themselves Tim. This is a heavy Charge indeed Sir but a Grace of God it may not be true I will give an Answer to the Particulars of it by and by But this you call Sir Proclaiming of War and Rivalling of Sovereignty do you not Judas Can you doubt it Sir is there not waging of War against Men's Livelihoods as well as Lives Tim. And against Mens Reputations as well as Lives and Estates and would not they think you that do it upon the one do it upon the other if it were in their Power Judas I allow it Tim. Then is your Friend this Author not only a Rivaller of Sovereignty but the most barbarous Tyrant living Judas How is that proved Sir Tim. By his murdering the Reputation of the Innocent without distinction of Age or Sex not sparing our Saviour himself from his Cross down to this day Judas Pray Sir how does this appear Tim. Only from his own words Page the 7th where after he had sufficiently scandalized the Modern Clergy He tells us That 't is not Impossible but that the Ancient Clergy might be possessed with the same spirit of Pride that has prevailed over the Modern and who does not know what this Man means by that word Impossible Nay he can hardly forbear an open Justification of the Romans Crucifixion of our Saviour himself and punishing him as he words it as a Slave For although he covers it with this supposition If he laid the Foundation of the Power of the Clergy Yet he must be blind indeed that cannot see what this Man means here by his If 's and And 's When the times will permit he will leave them out and speak plainly Jesu God! how is it that we live to see thy Face impudently spit in again by Miscreant Infidels and all this openly in the Face of the Sun and a Christian Government Judas You mistake Sir 't is a Deist says this and not my Friend Tim. I warned you of this Sir at the beginning of the discourse you think your Friend is like Legion in the Gospel but he is just the contrary For he himself is the Master Daemon and hath power over all those Evil Spirits which have taken up their abode in him and hath Power over them to command them to speak what he pleases even to the blaspheming of our blessed Lord himself But if this Man Sir would have had us hearken to his condemnation of contentious Humours and Hostile Inclinations in others he ought first to have shewed to us the Peaceableness of his own If he would have exposed the Quarrelsome and unchristian tempers of Church-men he ought first to have recommended himself by a Spirit of Meekness and Charity Then he might with better confidence at least have reproved those of the Church of England as he does Page the 8th from the breach of the second table and might sometime or other it may be have had his wish that his Soul might be amongst the Philosophers But in stead of this he has sounded a defiance throughout this Pamphlet not only against the Church of England but all other Christian Churches whatever and thrown as much filth upon them as old rotten Lungs could discharge Whereby he has proved himself a spurious breed of Celsus Porphyry Julian c. for he has their Spite and Malice he only wants their Wit and Learning But if this be the Religion of the Deists Gather not my Soul O God with these Sinners Judas Pray Sir let Harangning alone and come to the Particulars you promised Does not my Friend make it plainly appear that the Bishops and Clergy did use the Presbyterians and Dissenters barbarously by the Church devices of Abjuration of the Covenant and the Test c. Tim. Good Sir what makes your Friend so sweet all on a sudden on the Presbyterians how comes he to appear to them like an Angel of Light in this Page and yet in the two immediately foregoing to be kicking with his Cloven Foot at them to spurn them to death for there he levels them with the Bishops and tells us that they both under a pretence of Religion were grasping at Power and that the Claims of the Presbytery are nothing inferior to those of the Bishops So that as kind as he is to them here yet he has given them such a Cast of his Office as plainly to discover to them that were they guilty of the same fault the Church of England is at present that is were they uppermost again he would not fail to remember them how they Imposed the Covenant as a Condition of their Communion as he now tells the Church of England they did the Abjuration of it That he would tell them then as he does the Church of England now Page the 8th That no Man could enjoy a place of Profit or Trust under them though never so dutiful a Subject or honest a Man unless he had a Conscience by their Law established by which they deprived Men of the Privileges of their Country to which they were born c. These and a great many other matters upon occasion I suppose this good Author could rub his old Temples and call to Remembrance against the Presbyterians were they once again uppermost which I hate to rake in for I have Dunghil enough before me already Judas But what 's all this to the business Sir does the Presbyterians dealing barbarously with the Bishops and Clergy justifie their dealing so with them and other Dissenters What can they say for those Church Devices of their making the Acts of Abjuration of the Covenant and the Test c. Tim. If your Friend could make this Good he might well say they rivall'd the Sovereign Power It may be he thinks he can And indeed he is pretty near it he is within one Proposition of it for if he can but prove that the King and both Houses are all Clergy-Men he has done his business but till he has done that he has done nothing at all Now although I do look upon this Author to be a meer swell'd Hypocondriac whose Spleen does not only Rival but tyrannically domineer over the Sovereignty of his Brain yet I do not believe him so weak neither but that he knew very well what he did and understood well enough what he said in this Matter He knew well enough that these were not Acts of Convocation but of
said he this Author can have any grounds to Hope for what he says at last that has read what he said before So that this Gentleman seems to me said my Friend to have the Honesty of the good old Fox who after he had singled out several of the Flock and devoured them wiped his Mouth after Dinner and fell to his Prayers wishing the remainder of the Geese all increase of happiness and that they were double the number upon the Common Thus said my Friend I wonder this good Gentleman in his great Fit of Charity and Devotion had not wished the Estates of the Bishops double also that he might have the pulling of their Feathers and the larger share in the division of their Lands But I tell you Sir continued he with vehemence that there are Thousands and Thousands of us Gentlemen of the Church of England who are not to be baffled out of our Religion by an Irreligious Jest or two We are not Beau's of Sixteen that we should forego our Faith in our Blessed Saviour to hearken to the Buffoonry of an old Infidel Nor shall any Man living perswade us that Estates are proper only for Men that wait at Taverns and Plays and worse Places while those that wait at the Altar of God must Starve or that Thousands of Learned and Honest and Religious Men must want that Fools and Knaves and Atheists may abound We cannot disbelieve the Mysteries of Christianity to hearken to this Man's Reason till he has shewn a little more of it than he has done in this Pamphlet or let it be as good as it will he will have much ado to perswade us that his blasphemous Friend Page 25. can write as good a Moral as our Saviour and the next time he comes up to Parliament it may be will tell us he can live as good a one too But if his Friend said he be so very good at Writing Morals I think this Author would do well to desire him to Write One against malicious Lying and to read it well over himself when it is done For this puts too Keen an Edge upon an ill-natur'd Infidel as well as Divine and is the ugliest sign in the World of a Mean Birth and Narrow Education In fine Sir said he this Man would feign insinuate by one of his Friends as he would have us believe Page 27. That all Religion is wholly lost in the World I pray God said my Friend this be not more this Man's Wish than his Belief But if it be lost I must say said he that of all Men living neither he nor his Friends do seem to me to be the Persons that are ever like to find it But if these Men's Counsels added he and Devices should stand there would quickly be an end of all Religion in the World indeed Pray Sir said I what is your reason for this Opinion Because said he he that has but half an Eye may see that the end of these Men is to bring us all to Deism and to beat out all Revealed Religion But if once Sir said he we come to have no Divine standing Revealed Measure or Rule of Life and Faith he must be quite blind that does not see that a very little time will bring the greatest part of Mankind either to downright Atheism or Idolatry which is as bad and that every Man will make his own God and every Man his own Worship Upon this I replied Surely Sir you mistake when you say that these Men intend to pull down all Revealed Religion For the Author of the Growth of Deism says Page the first That there is no reason why one should suspect the Gospels of Forgery and Page 25. He makes one of his Deists to be convinc'd by a late Book of the Reasonableness of Christianity c. that he was more indebted to Revelation than he thought of And the Author of the Letter to the Deists confesses Page 138. That the generality of Mankind stand in need of some further Assistance than that general Capacity they are naturally endowed with and that considering the many Frailties of Humane Nature some extraordinary Helps may be useful Page 141. And he does not deny in the same Page but that God may convey these Helps by Men extraordinarily Commissioned by him Now this Sir says he Page 138. is pretended at least among Christians to have been done by the Revelation of Jesus Christ And if the History of the Gospel be true he says its Divine Authority cannot be questioned And he believes Page 142. that Christianity has the sairest Pretensions to this of any Religion now in the World To which my Friend answered The Author of the Letter to the Deist Sir said he is the best Interpreter in the World of the Author of the Growth of Deism He is I doubt not as well acquainted with his Mind as his own though if you will believe him not with his Person They were both convinc'd as he says Page 148. of the reality of Revealed Religion by the same Book and are both Converts questionless of the same Make and Size The Author of the Growth of Deism tells us Page 25. that one of his Deists but the Author of the Letter Page 148. tells us with more Honesty or less Caution that it was himself was convinc'd by a late Book called The Reasonableness of Christianity c. that he was more indebted to Revelation than he thought of but yet he tells us in the same Page that he could have written as good a Moral at the Scripture himself and had not his Modesty stood a little in his way I presume would have said a much Better and by Consequence that he could have done as well without it Nay I think verily it had never been mentioned but to insinuate some malicious Suggestions against the Church of England The Author of the Letter receives the Gospel no further than if it be true as an Improvement of Deism Page 144. and so far he is ready for all as I can see Page the 8th to receive what is written by Apollonius or Mahomet That Jesus Christ was Commissioned by God to reveal his Will is he says Page 138. only pretended by Christians and the utmost he will allow to Christianity is Page 142. That it has the fairest Pretensions to Revelation of any Religion now in the World So that our Saviour has only fair Pretensions to a Divine Authority at best and if this Man lived at Constantinople as he does in England who knows whether he might not find out another Fair Pretender there For Page 136. he tells us That something more easie and more evident is still wanting and therefore Page 137. he solicits Mr. Lock to give us a more perfect System of the Laws of Natural Religion It would Sir said my Friend make an Ass speak again to forbid the madness of these Prophets I know not which the Author of this Letter deserves most our Laughter our Pity