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Remarks upon "The Delineated Presbyterian Played Hob With" - 4

and taking it for granted that he was the Man, thence draws this sagacious and infallible Inference, that therefore he is a Lyer. The Gentleman so grosly abus’d, who was no Doubt suppos’d by our Author, to have wrote the Pamphlet he pretends to animadvert upon; and how nicely he does it! First with ushering in his Lampoon by deriding another Gentleman, whose prudent Behaviour in the late unhappy Disturbances, I leave to cooler Times to determine. But that I many detain your Attentions no longer, I shall with all the Brevity possible, convince you, by a few Remarks on that libellous Lampoon, which I just now spoke of, that the Author of it hath acted an unmanly and ungenerous Part. If any Man among you (says St. James) seem to be religious and bridleth not his Tongue, but deceiveth his own Heart; this Man’s Religion is vain.

What favourable Sentiments can you entertain of him, who, upon a bare, groundless Supposition, would endeavor to blast the Reputation of a fellow Creature? Do not your Hearts tell you, such a Man as this is and must of Necessity be a Villain? surely they do. Why then Mr. Pamphleteer labours under this

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