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old hobby of the Apoftolical Conftitutions. 
*¢ Spiritual wickednefs (we ufe Whifton’s 
words), ecclefiaftical tyranny, and anti- 
chriftian tyranny, with Conftantine and 
Athanafius,”’ he leaves to fhift for them- 
felves, but ftill thinks himfelf capable of 
refeuing his~ primitive difcipline, and 
leaves ihe field after making! a_ violent 
thruft at the clergy. ‘© Woe unto the fhep- 
herds of I{rael—the fhepherds feed not the 
ace but themfelves—with force and in- 
wilt have ye ruled over them; and they 
were {cattered, becaufe there was no fhep- 
herd 5 and they became meat to all the 
Beafts of the field.’ 
Dr. Bentley, alfo, cracked a lance with 
Collins, and a pretty tharp one. Though 
the main argument, fo far as the reafons 
for free-inguiry are concerned, is not af- 
feéted either by the gravity of Whifton or 
the tartnefs of Bentley. 
Another work of Mr. Collins’s is. inti- 
tled «* A Phiiofophical Inquiry concerning 
Heman Liberty.” This difcuffes the fub- 
ject of philofcphical liberty and neceflity. 
Mr. Hobbes. was the fir writer in this 
country who treated of this doétrine. It 
has be af fince difeufled by Dr. Hartley, 
in his Chapter on the Mechanifm .of the 
Human Mind, and by Dr. Jonathan Ed- 
wards, of New England, in his Treatife 
Free Will. But. Collins’s remarks 
exceed them all for perfpicuity and pre- 
cio yn, and therefore wear the mof popu- 
Jar air.. Two Tranflations of this per- 
five a e have Feen made ito French, 
and Dr. Pricftley republifhed it in England 
in the 1 year 3790. 
There are various ether treatifes of 
Collins’s. His chef @aeuvre is A Dit- 
eourfe on the Grounds and Reafens of the 
a iriftian Religion. Tn this work he muf- 
rs all his fhrewdnefs and ail his reading. 
Tn the fermer part he vindicates Mr. 
Whiften for his liberty of writing; im the 
feeond he ettacks him for his novions con- 
cerning the corruptions of the Scripture- 
text, and for the means which he propofes 
to reftore it. 
Del Pf ieftley remarks of this Ditcour fes 
<< His writingson the fubject of , prophecy 
have certainly occaficned more real dif 
culty to the friends - Revelation than all 
the other writings of unbelievers at home 
ans abread.”’ : 
Collins was highly refpected for his 
worth,-and fometimes dreaded for his ta- 
Jents. He was the friend and ccrrefpon- 
dent of Locke, by whom he was greatly 
eteemed, He lived and dred like a gocd 
man. 
Cantabrigiana. 
NO. CCVITi.—-DR,. JEREMY TAYLOR. 
This article, alfo, is out of place; for 
Jeremy Taylor was an Arminian, patro- 
nized, at firft by Archbifhop Laud, and 
NN made a bifhop in ig 
He was once very near going over to 
Popery ; and if the account of fome of 
his biographers is true, was. very eafily 
converted back: again. He, however, 
deferved a bifhopric—for he wrote learn- 
sah in defence of epifcopacy—and feeling. 
, for he had encountered fome difficulties 
in its fupport. He wrote much and fome- 
times myttically 5 he poflefled the under. 
fianding of a philofopher and the imagina. 
tion ofa poet. Asawriter, he hasbeen much 
admired by the advocates of oppofite fyf. 
tems ; by the friends of free-inquiry for 
his Liberty of Prophecying ; by the 
friends of the eftablifhment, for ins Divine 
Right of Epifcopacy ; and by the devout 
of different communities, for his Life of 
the Holy Jefus. At the fame time he 
has written io freely and unguardedly on 
the darknefs of the Scriptures, and the 
difficulty of underitanding them ; on the 
my {teriou(nefs of its doctrines, the variety 
of its readings, and the contrariety of its 
fenfes, as though they eould be made 
clear neither by the analogy of faith nor 
by the analogy of reafon. Indeed he has 
furnifhed fceptics with fceme plaufible ar- 
guments againt them; and with this 
View, no dean. Collins makes a fort of 
triumphant quotation from this ungene- 
rous prelate. 
Tam magnam rem tam negligenter! - TER. 
A volume of extra&ts from this writer 
and a few others has lately been publifhed 
bya gentleman of this unane Mr. 
Bafil Montague. By the bye, Bifhop Tay- 
lor was the ton of a barber at Cambridge.» 
NO. CCIX.—JEWS. 
"The Jews had no dealings with the Sa- 
maritans ; and Alma Mater has no deal- | 
ings with the Jews, at leaft in her cha- 
racter of an Academia, diftributing lucem — 
Chrit would, probably, © 
et pocula facra. 
have blamed them both ; and they ma- 
nage theie matters better in fome foreign 
univerfities, 
Mr. Lecke’s Treatife on Foleration. 
Bu', ever proud of beating tettimony to 
the very femblance of liberality, we mutt 
acknowledge, though our venerable mo- 
ther does not admit Jews into her bo- 
fom, that fhe indulges them occafionaily 
with her {miles, and has condefcended to 
receive favourably a Hebrew Grammar, 
and 2 Book on Fluxions, from the hands 
of ala‘e Mr. Hrael Ben a jew, for- 
merly 
on the broad foundation of © 
