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that undertook to answer his sermon. For he 

 not only was acquainted with Mr. Dodwell's de- 

 sign, but it was agreed and concerted between 

 them, that Mr. Dodwell's work should stand for 

 an answer to the answerer of the sermon, though 

 thrown, by him, into a new and more natural 

 method to himself. For thus he writes in the 

 preface abovementioned, " However, these con- 

 siderations being approved by several of my 

 worthy friends to whom I communicated them, 

 and among others by the author of that excel- 

 lent sermon, I easily obtained his leave to pro- 

 ceed in my own way. Yet I thought it conve- 

 nient withal to give this warning of it, that the 

 answerer, whoever he be, may know that his 

 objections have been allowed for in my hypo- 

 thesis, though they be not expressly mentioned ; 

 and that he may not look on the silence of his 

 adversary as an argument of any neglect of him." 



This seems to be the true state of the case, 

 and not that Mr. Sharp employed Mr. Dodwell 

 to undertake the dispute for him ; as Mr. 

 Brokesby, the author of Mr. Dodwell's Life, in- 

 timates in another place, where he says, *' that 

 Mr. D. wrote his book of Schism at the request 

 of the late excellent Archbishop of York." 



But it seems rather to have been Mr. Dod- 

 well's own choice and motion ; only as he was 

 engaged in that subject, it was proper for him 



