This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1893 Excerpt: ... A SHORT but SUFFICIENT CONFUTATION Of the Reverend Dr. WAU TTO N9S Projected DEFENCE (As he calls it) OF CHRISTIANITY, IN HIS divine Legation of Moses. IN A LETTER To the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of LONDON. By WILLIAM LAW, M. A. LONDON: Printed for J. Richardson, in Pater-noster Row. 1757. A Short Confutation of Dr. Warburton's Defence. My LORD, THE Reason of my humbly presuming to write to your Lordship on the following Subject is, because it is a Matter on which your Lordship has employed your most excellent, and much admired Pen, greatly to the Instruction, and Benefit of the World. And the Reason of my Writing at all, is owing to a Book newly published in Defence of Doctor Warburton, in which your Lordship is with much Freedom, and more Injustice, charged with a Multitude of Contradictions, and Inconsistencies relating to this Point, in your Sermons, and other Discourses. It is not my Design to enter here as an Assistant to your Lordship, or with any View of adding further Light or Strength to your Arguments, or to show the Weakness and Insufficiency of this Author's Attempt to puzzle and invalidate them: For either of these, is equally, and quite needless. My intention is, as mentioned in the Title Page. And because Doctor Warburton has owned this Writer, as a most able Defender of his Scheme, and from whom He looks even for the Establishment of it, I have taken Occasion from his Book, to show, that it is a Scheme so contrary to Scripture, and the Truth of Things, as no Art of Words, or Stretch of Genius, however powerful in Paradox, can ever be able to support. The Author of this Book, as Doctor Warburton assures us, f is too modest to make his Name known to the World; a Quality, which from the Reading of his Book, one would not suspect to be so ...

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