The Bulwark stormed : in answer to De Laune's Plea for the nonconformists ; wherein is shewed the fallaciousness and unconclusiveness of every argument in that pretended unanswerable book . Dn Brett^ Letter to theAuthor, in Vindication of the Primitive Church, &C. Mr. Hart, Never hcrjd of Dc Launez Pleatill youbrought it me, and toldme that it was a Book whichwas muirli cried up by the Dif-^(enters^ who faid it neither hadbeen nor could be anfwerd. ArdI find til at Mr. De Fee alfo re-prefents it as unaniXverable. He tells us in hisPreface, /.if. That the Book is perfc^ in it fclf-^m^-er Ainhor
The Bulwark stormed : in answer to De Laune's Plea for the nonconformists ; wherein is shewed the fallaciousness and unconclusiveness of every argument in that pretended unanswerable book . Dn Brett^ Letter to theAuthor, in Vindication of the Primitive Church, &C. Mr. Hart, Never hcrjd of Dc Launez Pleatill youbrought it me, and toldme that it was a Book whichwas muirli cried up by the Dif-^(enters^ who faid it neither hadbeen nor could be anfwerd. ArdI find til at Mr. De Fee alfo re-prefents it as unaniXverable. He tells us in hisPreface, /.if. That the Book is perfc^ in it fclf-^m^-er Ainhor kft behind him a nmx fimfifd Pitc€ 5a7td that lie hliez^es iht Difpntt is entirely any Mtin ask what they can fay^ r^-hythe Diflco-tcrs differ from the Chrrch of England, aTtd ivhatthey can plead for it? He can recammmd no hciter A 2 Reply. iir Dr. Brett^ Letter. Reply than this^ Let them anpwer^ in floort^ Tho-mas De Lniine j and defire the ^uerifl to read theBook. I therefore read it over carefully, aiidfound it to be what I expe6]:ed, a Treatife writ-ten With fome Art ayid Sophifiry, hut without onegood Argument that would hear the 1eft. Howe-ver, canfidering your Education and Employ-nlent, I feared (being then a Stranger to you}that you was not qualified to give this Book a fo-lid Anfwer. But I had not read many Leaves ofyour Bulwark Stormd before I was convinced,that good Senfe and a found Under (landing areby no means corffined to Men of a liberal Educa-tion ; and it having pleasd God to blefs you withthofe Talents, together with an honeif Mind,you had not failed to make a good Improvementof themj notwithllandingyour low flation in theWorld had barred you from thofe Advantageswhich Men of a learned Education and eafier For-tunes enjoy. And I found that you had not onlyread, but throughly underilood and digefled ou
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