To the direful Fooleries of all Bigots, His Enmity was bent and perpetual, As Men ever ravening against the Liberty, against the Poffeffions

Of their Fellow-Citizens.

Eloquently he expofed, zealously he restrained The petulant Spirit and Avarice of fuch Men. That the God of Nature, fupremely Great, fupremely Good,

Could ever approve wanton Cruelty, or devout Clamour and empty Sounds,

Or could ever be offended with the Mistakes and
Roamings of the human Soul,

Was what his rational Heart could never conceive.
To the Age of almost Fifty-five he lived,
An Age to himself fufficiently long;

But not fo to his Country, nor to his Friends, mor to his Lady.

As he had paffed his Life without Blemish,
He encountered Death without Fear,
A Man by all virtuous Men and Free-men
Worthy to be for ever lamented.

He died on the fixteenth of December, 1723. Of his Genius and Abilities there are Monuments

remaining,

Such as will for ever remain,

Confecrated to Time and Pofterity in Writings of various kinds.

Numb. I. The INTRODUCTION,

II. The Defign of this Paper,

xxxvii lxxxiii I

8

14

III. Of the Contempt of the Clergy,
IV. Of the Explication of the Scripture, 21
V. The Unfitness of the Clergy to teach others, 28
VI. Of Creeds and Confeffions of Faith, 36
VII. Of uninterrupted Succeffion,

43
VIII. Of uninterrupted Succeffion, Part 2. 51
IX. Of the Clearnefs of Scripture,
X. Of Ordination,

XI. The advantageous Situation of the Clergy, ftrangely inconfiftent with their common Cry of Danger,

XII. The Enmity of the High Clergy to the Reformation,and their Arts to defeat the End of it,

XIII. The Church proved a Creature of the Civil Power, by Acts of Parliament, and the Oaths of the Clergy,

59

68

77

84

92

XIV. The Clergy proved to be Creatures of the Civil Power, by the Canons, and their own publick Acts,

XV. The Abfurdity and Impoffibility of Church-Power, as independent on the State,

XVI. The Inconfiftency of the Principles and Practices of High-Church; with Some Advice to the Clergy,"

XVII. Reasons why the High-Church are the most wicked of all Men,

XVIII. A general Idea of Prieftcraft, XIX. Ecclefiaftical Authority,as claimed by the High-Clergy, an Enemy to Religion,

100

107

114

122

130

138

Queries concerning Authority in Mat-} 144

A Letter to a Clergyman, fhewing the Impoffibility of affenting to what we do

not understand,

XX. of Chaplains,

149

157

XXI A Comparison between the High-} 166

Church and the Quakers,

XXII. Prieftcraft corrupts every

XXIII. of Zeal,

174

183

thing, and perverts the use of Words,

XXIV. of Perfecution,

192

XXV. of Confecration,

199

XXVI. Of Faith and Morality,

207

XXVII. of Fafting,

214

XXIX. Of Education,

XXVIII. Of Authority,

XXX. of Education, Part 2.

XXXI. Of Ceremonies,

220

229 236

243

XXXII. Of Ceremonies, Part 2.

253

XXXIII. The Ignorance of the High- 267

Church Vulgar, and its Causes,

XXXIV. Of Fafting, Part 2.

XXXV. Of Reafon,

XXXVI. Of the Peace of the Church,

277

285

294

XXXVII. The Enmity of the High-} 303

Clergy to the Bible,

XXXVIII. of Penance, and Religious } 311

Revellings,

XXXIX. Priests afraid of Ridicule,
XL. Of Priestly Cruelty,

XLI. The folly of the Clergy's de-"
manding Refpect when their Characters
are bad: With the Equity of Univerfal
Toleration, and of judging for our felves,
XLII. Of High-Church Atheism,

349

XLIII. of High-Church Atheism, Part 2. 356

XLIV. Of High-Church Atheism, }

Part 3.

XLV. Of High-Church Atheism,

Part 4

XLVI. of High-Church Atheism,

Part 5.

XLVII. No Priefts inftituted by the
Chriftian Religion,

XLVIII. All Prieftly Power inconfiftent
with the Gospel, and renounced by it,
XLIX. The fame Subject continued,
L. An Inquiry into Religious Efta-

blishments; with a further Confutation of

the impious and abfurd Claims of High

Priefts,