A

CORDIAL

FOR

LOW SPIRITS.

BEING A

COLLECTION of curious TRACTS.

By THOMAS GORDON, Efq;
Author of the INDEPENDENT WHIG and other
Writers.

But in their room, as they forewarn,
Wolves fhall fucceed for teachers; grievous wolves!
Who all the facred myfteries of heav'n
To their own vile advantages fhall turn,
Of lucre and ambition; and the truth
With fuperftitions, and traditions taint,
Left only in thofe written records pure.

MILTON.

VOLUME THE THIRD.

LONDON:

Printed for Meffrs. WILSON and FELL, at the
Angel, in Pater-nofter-Row. MDCCLXIII.

758 .G66 1763

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ΤΟ

George Poplewell, Efq;

OF

East-Retford in Nottinghamshire.

SIR,

A

S you are a lover of truth and liberty, and a foe to prieftcraft and fpiritual tyranny, I beg leave to infcribe this volume to your name. Having no views felfish or perfonal, I am under no temptation

to flatter you: nor am I fo vain as to think, that this dedication can do you any honour. It will, probably, expose you to the fame cenfures which the editor himself has long fuffered; the cenfures of the ignorant, the bigot, the hypocrite, and the priest.

But you

and I, Sir, God be thanked! have both learned to despise these things, and to pity the authors of them. To that juft zeal which I have often heard you express for civil liberty, you have likewife added a noble zeal for that which is religious. After having acquired a plentiful fortune by honeft industry, you still continue to affociate with those only who are the friends of liberty; nor are you afhamed to countenance and encourage thofe that dif fent from the established church. And indeed it is quite inconfiftent with all

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