we hat,,e ha<l nothing like them publifhed ever fince, except (abft tnvidi? verbo) the inf?ired books ot t?e Nerv Tefi-?ment ? though a very able Logician, and an Ox}niar, too, nay, atO a-member of a col- lege, where arfotle has no rea�on to corn lain of P di?efpee2, has been heard to declare, that the B z s T l?ole that ?au ever written, except the Bi? L Z, WaS For my part, I cannot agree with this learned gentleman, but firmly and orthodoxly balieve that .drifiotle, as by law eltablifh?, is the bef? author, that ever let pen to lva?r: I have indeed often heard out c?..unrryman, ?obn Locke, laut in com?e. tition with him; but to me it �ee?s very plain 'dmt ?riflotle was a deeper fihol, r than l.o?ke, be. eanfe he wrote in Greet (which was his rr, ot?Ser t?ngue) and a better churchman, becaufe i,fi of a ?hr.'flia?. But, as great a f-fiencl as I am to this old he?ehe? bbilq?.?her, l can fee no teafort to believe every thing he ?5'?, nor to fwallow ,his truths and hi? fal. bhoo,ls _toge?her? I wou!d there bre humbly propore a re. ?rmateou of learning from the philq3I?hi?l popers', which prevails at ?re.?nt in our 'unive?fiti'e?5 ! would have no more a ? infMIibil?ty pretended to i? ?hefehools, ?l?an m ?he �hur�h? no ?bfolute dererrol nauon of fpeculative points tepofed iu any ma?, or body o? ? rnen? but I would have an univetfil tolera- tion allowed to, al! tl'u&nts and lovers of trmh, ? ?q,aire impartially a?ev it, and to clifpute ?'?eely a- bout it? I would have all inexplicable jargon, iufig- nifieant terms, and empty phr?ology? v?th whJe? uur dif?utatiov,? have been ?o?.?: encumber'd, banifh'? from the f?hools ? and, in a-few words, 1 wouk have our learned education, which at pre. fent roar wo far into n?et?l?h)?a! and /?v?;?ble regions, re duced to ?at#r?l teafin and ?ommou finfiS
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