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Printed for A. MILLAR, and J. and R. TONSON,

in the Strand, MDCCLXV.

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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

PHIL I P,

EARL of HARDWICKE,

LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR

OF

GREAT BRITAIN.

MY LORD,

YOUR

OUR Lordship having so far approved of the good intentions of my endeavours for above twenty years

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past, in the cause of RELIGION, as to confer upon me a diftinguishing mark of your favour, I am proud to lay hold of the first public opportunity which I have had, of defiring leave to make my moft grateful acknowledgments.

I take the liberty to infcribe to o your Lordship a new Edition of a Work tending to fhew and illuftrate, by a new Argument, the Divine Legation of Moses; which in our own, as well as former times, the moft celebrated Champions of Infidelity have cunningly, for their own purposes, laboured with all their might, to overthrow.

If I have fucceeded, or as far as I have fucceeded, or may hereafter fucceed, in the further profecution of this attempt, I shall ftrengthen one foun-` dation of Christianity.

As an Author, I am not follicitous for the reputation of any literary performance.

formance. A work given to the World, every reader has a right to cenfure. If it has merit, it will go down to pofterity: If it has none, the fooner it dies and is forgot the better.

But I am extremely anxious that no good man should mistake the view with which I write; and therefore cannot help feeling, perhaps too fenfibly, when it is misrepresented.

So far as any cenfure can fhew that my poor labours are not calculated to promote Letters or Learning, to advance Truth, or, above all, to serve the Caufe of Religion, which I profess as a Chriftian and a Member of the Church of England, I own, I have miffed my end; and will be the first to join with the cenfure which condemns them.

In the mean time, the firft Book of this Work, fuch as it is, is here humbly commended to your Lordship's protection.

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