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Excerpt from The Friend, Vol. 2: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, With Literary Amusements Interspersed
And it was no wonder if fome good and innocent men, efpecially fuch as he (lightfoot) who was generally more concerned about what was done in Judea many centuries ago, than what was tranfaéted in his own time in his own country - it is no wonder if fome fuch were for a while home away to the approval of Opinions which they, after more fedate re?eftion, difowned. Yet his innocency from any felf-intereft or defign, together with his learning, fe cured him from the extravagancies of demagogues, the peo ple's oracles. - llghtpoot's Work, pubig/lm: Preface to.
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