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 tient and Honourable Fa- An ESSAY on HONOUR. A Proposal for Revising, &c. FREE THOUGHTS upon the Contempt of the CLERGY. VOL. I. LONDON: Printed by Charles Rivington, For JOHN and JAMES RIVINGTON, at the Bible M DCC LIV. 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 |