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ON

INFIDELITY.

THE SECOND EDITION.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A LETTER то
DR. ADAM SΜΙΤΗ.

The doctrine of Epicurus is ever ruinous to Society:
It had it's rise when Greece was declining, and
perhaps hastened it's dissolution, as also that of
Rome; it is now propagated in France and Eng-
land, and seems likely to produce the fame effect
in both:

GRAY-MEMOIRS, P. 202.

BOD

:

OXFORD:

AT THE CLARENDON PRESS, MDCCLXXX VI
SOLD BY D. PRINCE AND J. COOKE, OXFORD:

G. ROBINSON, J. F. AND C. RIVINGTON,
AND T. CADELL, LONDON.

141. n. 133.

PREFACE.

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ET no reader take offence, though the subjects debated in the following pages be of a ferious nature, if the ideas and images employed should sometimes border upon the ludicrous. The contest between Elijah and the votaries of Baal was a very serious one, and heaven itself interposed in it's decision. Yet, strong 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

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