[60] Shaftesbury in Charact. Vol. 3. and Whitchcot’s Sermons: Vol. I.
[61] Shaftesbury’s Characteristicks, Vol. I. p. 71.
[62] Page 307.
[63] How useful Lestrange’s Observators, which were design’d to expose the Dissenters to Contempt and Persecution, were deem’d to the Church at the time they were publish’d, may be judged of by Bp. Burnet, who says [in his Eighteen Papers, p. 90.] “Another Buffoon was hired to plague the Nation with three or four Papers a Week, which to the Reproach of the Age in which we live, had but too great and too general Effect, for poisoning the Spirits of the Clergy.”
[64] In this Work the Dissenters and Low Churchmen are sufficiently rally’d and abus’d, and particularly the Free-Thinkers, whose Creed is therein represented as consisting of these two Negatives, No Queen and no God. Examiners, Vol. 3. p. 12.
Mr. Addison tells us [Freeholder Nº. 19.] “the Examiner was the favourite Work of the Party. It was usher’d into the World by a Letter from a Secretary of State, setting forth the great Genius of the Author, the Usefulness of his Design, and the mighty Consequences that were to be expected from it. It is said to be written by those among them whom they look’d upon as their most celebrated Wits and Politicians, and was dispers’d into all Quarters of the Nation with great Industry and Expence.——In this Paper all the great Men who had done eminent Services to their Country, but a few Years before, were draughted out one by one, and baited in their Turns. No Sanctity of Character, or Privilege of Sex exempted Persons.——Several of our Prelates were the standing Marks of publick Raillery.——”
[65] In his Ecclesiastical Policy, his Defence and Continuation thereof, and his Reproof to Marvel’s Rehearsal transpos’d.
[66] In his Friendly Debates.
[67] In his six Volumes of Sermons, and in his Books of the Trinity.
[68] In his Discourse of the Knowledge of Christ, &c. his Defences of Dr. Stillingfleet’s Unreasonableness of Separation, and his Answer to the Protestant Reconciler.
[69] In his Translation of Dryden’s Absalom and Achitophel into Latin Verse, whereby he was first flush’d; and in his Convocational Controversy, and in his numerous State Libels.