REMARKS ON THE FOREGOING. 



fhore deferving of praife than blame. Did not St. 

 Paul, long before them, become all things to all 

 men? and, at Athens, at Ephefus, and every where 

 elfe, did he not dextroufly adapt both himfelf and his 

 difcourfes to the time, and the circumltances of the 

 place ? 



Have the jefuits overturned St. Auguftine's fyftem of 

 grace ? — Have they forged weapons for deifm ? — I 

 walh my hands of the affair ; all I can fay upon it is : 

 that I will be neither the flrft, nor the fecond, nor the 

 third, to cart a Hone at them on that account. They 

 may, for aught I know, have a little fmatcli of femiv 

 pelagianifm within : but I, who have enough to do to 

 keep myfelf from being a whole pelagian (if I be not 

 fomewhat of it already without my knowledge) ought 

 not to clap a procefs on their backs for that matter. 



That the evangelical morality is to be fhoved out of 

 the world by probabilifrri, is likewife a hard faying. 

 The poor janfenifts have already been advancing the 

 fame thing for more than a hundred years pair, and 

 have written more books upon the fubje6l than I would 

 chufe to read — * for the only one that will bear read- 

 ing, Pafcal's Provinciales, I have read with pleafure 

 more than ©nee, without, however, being converted 

 by it to any of the graces of the worthy faint Auguf- 

 tine. — 8 Therefore, fufficiently have they faid and pro- 

 ved it : but have the jefuits been deficient, on their 

 part, in counter-fayings and counter-proofs ? — I 

 know but one morality with which the evangelical nei- 

 ther can Hand in any oppofition nor needs to do fo« 

 But, though this fole morality has very plain and firm 

 univerfal fundamental principles and axiom? ; yet 

 they cannot hinder that, in the application of it ta 



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