-- 20.3 Shore, "The Old Whig - the common into which all the dirty calumny from all quarters, against the Church and the blergy, for fome time, difmbogued itself. Clarke's Reply to Chandler on Intsiiption The above Quotation from Clarkes reply The a Callumni on Liberty and meant to diccufe the ne Clat Whig has gained Gedit in the mast in light ened Countries and will stand the Best of reason indefiance of Buperstition and Forged in WHIG OR, THE Confiftent Proteftant. In Two VOLUMES. VOL. I. Hoc liberiores et folutiores fumus, quod integra CIC. Acad. Quaest. lib. iv. LONDON, Printed for W. WILKINS, A. WARD, R. M DCC XXXIX. 4. THE PREFACE. T HE Title of these Miscellanies might raife an expectation of their being calculated to express the fentiments of a party. On the contrary, their view was to remind all parties of thofe principles which all, occafionally at least, acknowledge as the bafis of fociety, the principles of liberty. OUR Fathers, who spoused these principles, · when reafon, liberty, and virtue were most unfashionable, were branded with the name of WHIGS; we therefore who have thought thofe truths ftill neceffary to be inculcated, tho' always fomewhat out of fashion, under the covert of their name spoke with their freedom, on fubjects which concerned the cause of liberty, whether occurring in controverfies of learned men, or parliamentary tranfactions. AND fince many of these were fubjects of no tranfitory nature, the papers occafionally wrote on them are now collected in these vo 89X 460 A 2 lumes; |