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PREFACE.

WITH the fate of Thomas Paines as defcribed in the preface to his Second Part of the Age of Reason, I have no farther concern than as I owe a tear to every scene of human wretchedness, and feel for the miseries of Tyranny, whether Princely or Republican.

Since Mr. P.'s enlargement he has feen feveral Answers to the former part of The Age of Reafon," written, fome in America and fome in England,"-and it has happened, that all of them "have been written by PRIESTS." A capital crime this! that men who have devoted their lives to the service of Christianity, should defend it !—Were the laws of England to be attacked, where should we look for vindicators, but to the Profeffors of the Law? Or were fome ignorant defperado to attack the Science of Medicine, to whom should we look for its defence so naturally as to Medical Profeffors?

But fuppofe the Priefts had all would Mr. P. have faid of them?

been filent, what then What name of oppro

brium would have been thought bad enough for men that fhould daftardly betray the cause they are, as he says, paid for fupporting ?-What then, muft those men neither be filent, nor reply? or are they reduced to the fad fatality of erring every way ?

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