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other Church; and the only human mode, perhaps, of 

 caufing fo great a revolution, will be to trantlate into 

 Sanfcrit and Perfian, fuch chapters of the Prophets, 

 particularly of Ifaiah, as are indifputahly Evangelical, 

 together with one of the Gofpels; and a plain prefatory 

 difcourfe, containing full evidence of the very diftant 

 ages, in which the predictions themfelves, and the hif- 

 tory of the Divine Perfon predicted, were feverally 

 made publick; and then quietly to difperfe the work 

 among the well-educated natives; with whom, if, in 

 due time, it failed of producing very falutary fruit by 

 its natural influence, we could only lament more than 

 ever the ftrength of prejudice, and the weaknefs of un- 

 abided reafon. 



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