Excerpt from A Letter to Dr. Priestley's Young Man: With a Postscript Concerning the Rev. D. Simpson's Essay in Answer to Evanson's Dissonance and Volney's Ruins Certain as that the word of God is true, that feveral of the canonical fcriptures of the ar z'baa'ox Church of Conl'cantine mull be fabu lous and falfe. And fince the Doctor has quo ted916 the laf'c fentence I here allude to, he mufl have read that preface. Yet he pafl'es by what I have there urged as the {reviled/r configure of St. Paul's predictions, without the leal'r notice of any kind. And inflead of paying the flightel't attention to the account I haye there given of myfelf, he has thought proper to declare, that it does not appear by what particular train of thought I was ori ginally led to entertain the doubts which pro duced the work he animadverts on, and there fore, amufes himfelf and his readers with in venting motives for my conduct and account ing for my work in bi: manner. But, how ever fuperior Dr. Priefiley may be to me in other kinds of knowledge, I mul't infill upon it, that I underlland what are the perceptions and workings of my own mind better than he does: and {till abide by that account of the matter, which I have before given, as the on ly faithful and true one. Though it happens to. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.