A Letter to the Right Reverend Author of the Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, in Answer to the Appendix to the Fifth Volume of That Work; With

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1766. Excerpt: ... T O The Right Reverend Author O F Divine Legation of Mofes Demonftrated. My Lord, 1 Cannot but think myfelf much obliged to your Lordfhip, for the diftinguifhed honour which you have done me, in making me the fubjeftof an Appendix to your great Work of The Divine Legation of Mofes Demonftrated: an honour, which you have hitherto conferred on no one, except a late noble Lord and myfelf. I heard indeed from every quarter, that you had taken it into your head, that I had affronted you; and that this imagined affront lay rankling at your heart. You expreffed your indignation, with much vehemence and loud menaces, to almoft every one whom you met: except to myfelf; whom you, at the fame time, received with fair words and a fmooth countenance: infomuch that I was then really perfuaded, A 2 that that what 1 had heard of your refcntment was alt an idle and groundlefs report. However, I did not imagine, either that the fubje3 on which we differed Was fo important in itfelf, or the perfon who differed from you fo confiderable in your eftimation, as to merit fo formal a procefs, and fo folenm a chaftifement. I thought you might poffibly whip me at the cart's tail in a Note to Divine Legation, the ordinary place of your literary executions: or pillory me in the Dunciad, another engine, which, as legal proprietor, you have very ingcnioufly and judicioufly applied to the fame purpofe: or perhaps have ordered me a kind of Bridewell correftion by one of your Beadles, in a pamphlet. I never flattered myfelf with the expeftation of being exhibited on a fcaffold, erefted on purpofe for me, and in fo confpicuous a place. I can do no lefs therefore than make my acknowledgments to your Lordfhip upon the occafion; as Sir John Owen did to my Lord Prefident Bradfhaw, of infolen...