The British Plutarch, Vol. 7 of 8: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen, Patriots, Divines, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists, of Great Britain and Ireland, From the Accession of Henry VIII. To the Present Time; Including a Compendi

Excerpt from The British Plutarch, Vol. 7 of 8: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen, Patriots, Divines, Warriors, Philosophers, Poets, and Artists, of Great Britain and Ireland, From the Accession of Henry VIII. To the Present Time; Including a Compendious View of the History of England

Dr. Wake, in the preface to his State of the Church and Clergy of England in their Councils, Synods, Convocations, -fays, that, upon_his firlt perufal ofdr. Attetbury's book, he faw fuch a fpirit of wrath and uncharitablenefs, accompanied with foch an affurance of the author's abilities for fuch an undertaking, as he had hardly ever met with in the like degree before._ He afterwards fays, In my examination of the Whole book, I find in it enough to commend the wit, though not the fpirit ofhim who wrote it. - To pay what is due even to an adverfary; it mufi be allowed, that Dr. Atterbury has done all, that a man of forward parts and a hearty zeal could do, to defend the canfo which he has efpoufed. He has chofen the molt plaufible topics of argumentation; and he has given them all the advantage, that either a fprightly wit, or a good allurance, could afford them. But he wanted one thing; he had not Trail/9 on his tide: and 'error, though it may be palliated, and by an artificial manager, fuch as Dr. Atterbury without controverfy is, be difguifed fo as to de ceive fometimes even'a wary reader, yet it will not bear a firiét examination. And accordingly I have lhewn him, notwithftanding all his other endow ments, to have deluded the world witha mere Ro mance; and, from the one end of his difcourfe to the other, to have delivered a hifiory, not of what.

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