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ment. This book won the doctor a great number of partizans, and lost him the See of Canterbury: But in my humble opinion, he was out in his calculation, and had better have been Primate of all England than meerly an Arian parson.

You see that opinions are subject to revolutions as well as Empires. Arianism after having triumph'd during three centuries, and been forgot twelve, rises at last out of its own ashes; but it has chose a very improper season to make its appearance in, the present age being quite cloy'd with disputes and Sests. The members of this Sect are, besides, too few to be indulg'd the liberty of holding public assemblies, which however they will doubtless be permitted to do, in case they spread considerably. But people are now so very cold with respest to all things of this kind, that there is little probability any new religion, or old one that may be reviv'd, will meet with favour. Is it not whimsical enough that Luther, Calvin and Zuinglius, all of 'em wretched authors, should have founded Sects which

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