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Show 98 SERIES OF ANSWERS T0 with the molt Virulence, and with the leal't Re- POPULAR OBJECTIONS. 9., " pleétion. They are now Mr. LOCKE'S Difci- gard to Truth and Decency. [No bad Argument this, in my Opinion, independently of others, " ples, who has laid down fuch Maxims in his why we {hould wifh for a Separation, in Order " Treatife on Government, that if they were to to put an End to fuch Procedures] As to De"my, indeed there was not much Ground to ex- " be executed according to the Letter, and in pect it from the common Herd of Mock- Patriots, " fiand them, they would neCeH'aril-y un/zz'nge every and republican Bigots, confidering who they are, what are their Aims and of what Materials " Government upon Earth. 1 {ball at prefent " mention only four of them." [Which Idid, moft of them are made: And {till lefs'Was the quoting both Book, and Chapter from whence I \ Profpeét that they would pay a due Regard to TRUTH. But neverthelefs, as they have {made my Extra&.] " the Manner the American: pretend to under- ' Writers of Eminence among them, and fuch Now an open and ingenuous Opponent had Writers too, who before this contagious Difor- der, had maintained a fpotlefs Character; one firf't to fay, if he thought proper to fay any might have hoped for better Things from t/zem. And yet, Reader, what a falling away has there been even in the belt of them l Dr. PRICE him~ Thing, that the American: were not Mr. LOCK E's Difciples, and to give his Reafons for that-Affertion z-Or, fecondly, if he allowed them to be his ‘Difciples,ithat Mr. Locxt's Pofitions were not'fo extravagant, and f0 detrimental to the {elf not excepted! Peace of Society, as I ‘hadireprefented them :- IN my Letter to Mr. BURKE (whofe unpro~ voked Ufage compelled me to cenfure and ex~ pofe him, as I am now conf'trained to do by Dr. PRICE) I obferved at Page i r, " That in Pro" cefs of Time the Notion, that Dominion was " founded in Grace, grew out of Falhion [with "the Antinomian Fanatics of New-Eng/amzfl " but that the Colonifis continued to be Repub: j‘ licans {til}, only Republicans of another Corns f‘ pleétion. Or, thirdly, that taking them even according to my Quotation, they were to be jui'tified, and and ought to be defended, by every true Friend to the Rights of Mankind :---l fay, an open and ingenuous Opponent'would have adopted one or other of thefe Modes of Proceeding; becaule each of them is free from the low Cunning of Equivocation, and mental Relervation. BUT what Method doth Dr. PRICE adopt in this Cafe? He adopts neither of the former; ; I but |