The doctrine of Epicurus is ever ruinous to Society: OX FOR D AT THE CLARENDON PRESS, MDCCLXXX SOLD BY D. PRINCE AND J. COOKE, OXFORD: G. ROBINSON, J. F. AND C. RIVINGTON, PREFACE. L ET no reader take offence, though the subjects debated in the following pages be of a ferious nature, if the ideas and images employed fhould fome times border upon the ludicrous. The contest between Elijah and the votaries of Baal was a very ferious one, and heaven itself interpofed in it's decifion. Yet, ftrong and pointed is the irony of the Prophet-" Cry aloud, for he is a God; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or "he is in a journey, or perad |