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ingenuity and violence of their assaults upon one another’s reputations, in which the question was not concerned; but the cause of each much differed by their respective abuses. By which premisses, you may perhaps think that I am drawing up a charge against my own discourse, which relates a controversy, and one with a divine, that some possibly may judge too, not to favour in the menage of it, of so much candour and modest sweetness as I seem to recommend. The answer of this will be the first business of this PREFACE.

Therefore, for the publishing the matter of a dispute, and that which was privately begun, I have to say, that the grave man gave me occasion enough of displeasure and complaint, by the dreadful and most injurious censure of atheism, charged