The Scourge : in vindication of the Church of England ; to which is added, IThe danger of the Church-establishment of England, from the insolence of Protestant dissenters ; Occasion'd by a presentment of the forty second paper of the Scourge at the King's Bench Bar, by the Grand Jury of the hundred of Ossulston ; IIThe anatomy of the heretical synod of dissenters at Salters-Hall . THE DANGER O F T H E Church-Establishment, &c. C H A P. I. Wherein the Author modcftly vindicates him-felf from the Charge ^Sedition. Worjhipful Sir, H E Indignation with which youwere lately plcasd to inform againft
The Scourge : in vindication of the Church of England ; to which is added, IThe danger of the Church-establishment of England, from the insolence of Protestant dissenters ; Occasion'd by a presentment of the forty second paper of the Scourge at the King's Bench Bar, by the Grand Jury of the hundred of Ossulston ; IIThe anatomy of the heretical synod of dissenters at Salters-Hall . THE DANGER O F T H E Church-Establishment, &c. C H A P. I. Wherein the Author modcftly vindicates him-felf from the Charge ^Sedition. Worjhipful Sir, H E Indignation with which youwere lately plcasd to inform againftthe Author of the Scourge, at the1^ Kin^sBench Bar^ has been theOccafion of the Trouble this verylong Letter may give you; which, I flatter myfelf, you would do me the Honour once tolook over, if I could hope that any thing froma private Hand had Power to arreft yourThoughts from the Affairs of the Tnblick Weak. 288 TheDh^Gi^^cfthe ? JVealy or from thofc profound Speculations inPolicy and Government, which have been al-ways the Diftindion of your Jhining Charaoter, and will make your Memory for ever re-ipeded. It is impofliblc, Worfliipful Sir, but youmuft have been told, that the weekly Terform-ance you were pleasd toprefenty was writtenby a Clergyman of the Church of England--^ andI modeftly ufe this Opportunity, to affure youthat the Report was, in feme Me afire ^ certain;and tho I abhor to fjoagger under the Um-brage of that illuflrious Title^ yet pardon mefor glorying in it. But concerned am I, andit would be the great Misfortune of my Life,if the facred Reputation of the Priefthoodihould receive a Blemifli from any Deportmentof mine 5 if I fliould add to that horrible Loadof Infamy and Scandal, which in the .prefentAge, God knows, lye infupportably he^avy up-on the holy Order, or fhould contribute toexpofe that divine Profeflion, when it has beenthe utmoft of my Care to wipe off thofe
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