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that ** the works of the Divine Artift'' had 

 left no room for rediiication ; (fee p. 153) 

 that nothing on my part can be required to 

 excite the rifible emotions j though, I muft 

 confefs, it is with the greateft reluftance fo 

 fair a temptation is rehnquiflied, to play a 

 little upon the retentive imperfections of one 

 predeceffor, and the methodiftical enthufiafm 

 of the other. 



But notwithftanding the direcft and repeated 

 contradictions we find difperfed through the 

 volumes of Bracken, (probably occafioned 

 by his long and inconfiftent digreffions) it 

 muft be acknowledged, with the ftridteft 

 adherence to juftice and merit, that no one 

 fucceeding writer has fince ftarted a thought 

 or broached an opinion upon the operation of 

 Towelling, or its effed:s, but what has been 

 an exaCt literal defcription, or oblique echo, 

 of what originated with him upon the fub- 

 je6t. For upon a minute examination of the 

 various publications of different writers, we 

 find that a very fuperficial inveftigation, and 

 no additional explanation, has been conde- 

 scendingly beftowed upon a procefs that is 

 even new held in the higheft eftimation, by 



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