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1O man that is not utterly unacquainted 3 with the ſtate of things among us can be ignorant, that in the laſt, and eſpe-

cially in the preſent age, there have been many books publiſhed, the manifeſt deſign of which was, to ſet aſide revealed religion. Never in any country where Chriſtianity is pro- feſſed, were there ſuch repeated attempts to ſub- vert its divine authority, carried on ſometimes under various diſguiſes, and at other times with- out any diſguiſe at all. The moſt noted writers on that ſide, have been at liberty to produce their ſtrongeſt objections; theſe objections have been retailed by others: and many ſeem to take it for granted, that Chriſtianity hath received very ſen- ſible wounds by the ſeveral attacks that have been made upon it, and that they have greatly hurt its credit, and weakened its authority.

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