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Show U ridicule his Attributes and his Being, ar but two words for the fame Thing. Thef = = N It i Amphiteion Attributes are beftow'd on Fupizer wit reat Prodigality, and afterwards execra , o i gly outrag'd The Cafe being thus, th Coverof an Idol,i W&Y, th@ Wl M bt ormer ;fRoad to thin pretenc to Screen the Blafphemy. % Nothing bu M. Dryden's Abfalom and Achitophel ca out-do This. HereI confefs the Motio of his Pen 1s bolder,and the Strokes mor Black'd. Here we have Blafphemy o the top of the Letter, without any trou tremeof e Fren{h ble of Inference, or Conftruction. Thi Poem runs all upon Scripture Names, up o0 e on Suppofition of the true Religion, an h th rig Obj o Wo He Pro fh t p Tom, ot P fan i fhu ou fro Def an lie nef nce il Degee: ope wi Co o Eva He ho ou ion e defa ar n Pa Div i th Sc { a nit em e p, ol that all the Atheiftick Raillery muft poin upon the true God. In the beginnin e mitl arte B we are told that 4bfalom, was David's Natural Son: So then there's a blot in hi il 1terpreted i 7\{;[]}1 sl ."' it < o a1 /YHm Jo Scutcheon, and a blemifh apon his Birth The Poet will make admirable ufe of thi remark prefently! This Abfalom it feem was very extraordinary in his Perfon an Performances. . "Mr. Dryder does not certainly know how this came about, an therefore enquires of himfelf in the firf plac W heN a |