OMNES AD SACRAS LITERAS SUNT DUCENDI, UT GROTIUS. NO YORK: Printed by A. WARD, for the AUTHOR, and fold by MDCCLXXV. [PRICE THREE SHILLINGS.] DEDICATION. то 1. F EDMUND BURKE, Esq; SIR, WHEN HEN I first committed the volume, with which I now present you, to the public, I was actuated purely by a defire to stop the progress of errour, which I feared, from the sacrifice that had been made to her, would be mistaken for truth; and as fuch em-braced by many unsuspecting, and many indolent persons. A train of thinking, upon one side of the question, had been prescribed to them, and the conclusions, set up for their affent, abetted by proofs of fincerity, which I apprehended such men would confider as the criterion of truth. For their benefit I ventured to interpofe, and, to the best of my power, have pointed out the only premises from which any conclufions in religious enquiry can refult; and from which they may proceed |