THE VISITOR. By SEVERAL HANDS. Published by WILLIAM DODD, M. A. VOL. II. LONDON: Printed for EDWARD and CHARLES DILLY, M.DCC.LXIV. THE VISITOR. NUMBER XLIII. In religion What damned Error, but fome fober brow SHAKESPEAR. SIR, As To the VISITOR. S you appear to be a gentleman of humanity, as well as to have a regard for the honour of religion; I have not the least doubt, but you will give a place to my melancholy tale, in your excellent paper; which, I hope, may prove of great fervice to mankind. At leaft it will tend to display the pernicious tendency of fome religious principles, which are daily propagated with the utmost zeal and affiduity; propagated amongst the lower clafs of the people, where they are certainly moft dangerous and deftructive; and where the more they prevail, the more muft licentiousness prevail; and every foVOL. II. B cial |