256 CHAPTER 19. 
KiNs's " Treatife on Natural Religion/* 
It is wholly of a moral and praftical nature,^ 
written in a plain, but forcible and argu- 
mentative ftyle, and is entirely deftitute of 
any of thofe enthuiiaflic or myftical opi- 
nions, which fo highly tind:ured the writ- 
ings of many divines of the laft century. 
On the contrary, Mr. P^ay, ever confiflent 
and rational, although he deduces his prin- 
cipal motives to the pradice of virtue, as 
conducive to happinefs, even in this life, 
from the precepts of Chriftianity ; yet does 
not difdain, particularly in treating on plea- 
fure, on riches, and the advantages of tem- 
perance, to enforce his arguments by opi- 
nions and apophthegms from the writings 
of the philofophers and moralifts of ancient 
Greece, and Ro?ne. 
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