LET. Would the

would the appearance of Christ among XVII. them after his refurrection have pro

duced, but that of provoking fresh
blafphemies, and fresh infults?
And thus you fee, Dear Sir, we

the point from Affent to proper

are come round to
whence we fet out.
evidence is an act of the highest rea-
fon. Such evidence for Revelation,
once established, is not to be fet aside,
or invalidated, by any difficulties,
supposed or real, which may occur in
the matter of that Revelation. Ma-
lice and ignorance will always find
room for objections, and they will
never believe, who have no mind to
believe. The infidels, therefore, have
not ground for the furmife, that we
want to "deprive them of God's best
gift." We wish only to teach them
the right use of it. Reafon is not "the
• first

"first and only Revelation from God;" LET. for it is, properly speaking, no Reve- XVII. lation at all. Man, at his creation, was not left so much as a fingle day to reafon. It is the eye, not the light. It can with certainty know nothing concerning the things of another world, but by information from thence. To this truth the writings of the best and wifeft among the heathen philosophers bear a teftimony irrefragable and infurmountable. It is the faculty which enables us upon proper evidence to receive, and after due ftudy to understand, fuch information. And Bleffed is he, who, at the return of his Lord to judgment, fhall be found to have fo employed it.

The production which has thus paffed under our confideration, from the low and illiberal manner in which

LET. it is penned, has been by many acXVII. counted to be beneath notice. But

nothing is beneath notice, which is calculated to deceive and feduce the ignorant and the unwary, among whom, though even now scarce known in the shops, this pamphlet has been privately spread and recommended, as a Chef d'œuvre. And though the execution be coarfe and mean, the objections, in fubftance, are fuch as continually occur in writings of a much higher class, which make part of the furniture of every circulating library through Great Britain, from whence they pafs into the hands of our idle young people of fashion, while under the difcipline of the frifeur, in the metropolis, or at the watering places. The answers published by Nonnotte, Bergier, and

others,

others, to the books of Voltaire, LET. Rouffeau, Helvetius, Boulanvilliers, XVII. &c. &c. have been much called for, and done eminent fervice, upon the continent and it is humbly hoped the foregoing ftrictures may not be without their use here in England.

THE END.