A Testimony of antiquity concerning the sacramental body and blood of Christ, written in the old Saxon tongue before the conquest : being a homily appointed, in the reign of the Saxons, to be spoken at Easter, as a charge, to the people ; together with the two epistles of Aelfric on the sam subject . i-><f^ mM<m/^:^ PHILEMON T O AM fure, my HydafpeSy I needno Apology for calling oflf yourAttention a while from the gaypurfuits of the Town, to giveyou fome fhare in thofe calmer Pleafuresin which Hortenfius and I have been in-gaged fince I left you. You are not of theNumber of
A Testimony of antiquity concerning the sacramental body and blood of Christ, written in the old Saxon tongue before the conquest : being a homily appointed, in the reign of the Saxons, to be spoken at Easter, as a charge, to the people ; together with the two epistles of Aelfric on the sam subject . i-><f^ mM<m/^:^ PHILEMON T O AM fure, my HydafpeSy I needno Apology for calling oflf yourAttention a while from the gaypurfuits of the Town, to giveyou fome fhare in thofe calmer Pleafuresin which Hortenfius and I have been in-gaged fince I left you. You are not of theNumber of too many polite People, whoknow no Entertainment beyond whatCrouds and public Scenes can give them;but ftepping afide fometimes from the Noifeand Hurry of a more expofed Life, can B with With-a much truer Relifli of Happinefs en-joy jw/r/?^ or your Friend in private. Itis your peculiar Felicity to have imitedtwoCharafters, which many miftake for Incon--jijlent^ becaufe fo rarely found together^ thePbilofopher^ and the Gentlemmi. This is apart fo natural to you, that whether I haveattended you in the mixed and fafhionableSocieties of the Worlds or in xh^JeleB Par^ties of Men of Letters and Erudition, Ihave never been able to determine whetheryou have better accommodated yourfelf tothe Pkafantry of the one, or the Severityof the other-, for
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