THE

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

OF

JOHN HIL DROP, D. D.

Rector of WATH, in YORKSHIRE.

In TWO VOLUMES.

CONTAINING,

VOL. I.

VOL. II.

An ESSAY for the better Re- A Modest Apology for the An-

gulation and Improvement
of FREE-THINKING.

tient and Honourable Fa-
mily of the WRONGHEADS.

An ESSAY on HONOUR.

A Proposal for Revising, &c.
the Ten Commandments.

FREE THOUGHTS upon the
BRUTE-CREATION: In
two Letters to a LADY.

Contempt of the CLERGY.
Life of Simon Shallow, Esq;

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed by Charles Rivington,

For JOHN and JAMES RIVINGTON, at the Bible
and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard.

M DCC LIV.

THENEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

THE

PREFACE.

Br the Importunity of my Friends, I

have been prevailed upon to publish in this Form some loose Pieces, which at feveral Times I had offered to the Public, and generally without any Name of the Author; by which I had often the Pleasure of hearing them ascribed to Perfons, whose very Names do me greater Honour than I could ever expect to receive or deserve. Thus the Letter to a Member of Parliament was generally ascribed to Dean SWIFT ; and I was affured by a great Dignitary in the Church, that my Reflections upon Reason were writ by the