PREFACE. 



A S the Author of the following Letters hath been 

 charged with inhumanity, and yet conjedlured 

 to be a clergyman ; it is now become necessary to 

 publish his name : and, though it may not be usual 

 to answer an anonymous writer, yet, as it is not im- 

 possible that some readers may have adopted his 

 sentiments, this consideration, and this alone, in- 

 duces the Author to answer the obje6lions which 

 the critic hath, so wantonly, made. Whatever may 

 be the imperfe6lion of these Letters, the Author is 

 desirous that it should fall, as it ought, upon him- 

 self only. The obje6tions, which he thinks were 



