. A treatise concerning the state of departed souls, before, and at, and after the Resurrection. find evenin this imperfect, rough drawn Copy, Thingsthat are fublimely beautiful. I believe that the mofl inveterate offDr. Burnet/ Enemies, will not for his ownJSake appear Jo malicious, as to affirm thatthat great Man had a Tlefign to impofe up-on his Contemporaries, and lip on Poflerity > Ifay upon cPofterity, to which his Works willcertainly deft end: He flyews every wheretoo magnanimous a Soul for that. No Manfeems to me ever to have abhorred Faljhoodmore. I will not pretend to fay that he


. A treatise concerning the state of departed souls, before, and at, and after the Resurrection. find evenin this imperfect, rough drawn Copy, Thingsthat are fublimely beautiful. I believe that the mofl inveterate offDr. Burnet/ Enemies, will not for his ownJSake appear Jo malicious, as to affirm thatthat great Man had a Tlefign to impofe up-on his Contemporaries, and lip on Poflerity > Ifay upon cPofterity, to which his Works willcertainly deft end: He flyews every wheretoo magnanimous a Soul for that. No Manfeems to me ever to have abhorred Faljhoodmore. I will not pretend to fay that he iswithout Error, no human Writer either is^or was, or ever will be without it. Thegreateji of Men both may and muf err , butif we are to judge, as in Equity we ought,of the Trofe of a Writer, by the fame Ruleby which Horace judgd of the Verfes of hisContemporaries, Ubi plura nitent in Car-mine, non ego paucis, offendar maculis, & will I venture to affirm, that if1)r. Burnet has Errors, he has Beauties, andgreat Beauties, fiffcient to make an amplemd a glorious Amends for them, THE. THE CONTENTS.


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