By THO. SHERLOCK, D.D. Dean of LONDON: Printed for J. PEMBERTON at the Buck and Sun, (4) The Condition and Example of our Bleffed Saviour vindicated, &c. S Hou'd I pretend to fay that I received his Lordship's denunciation in the News Paper of a Charge of Calumny, without concern; I should deny the truth: For tho' I well knew that I had given no juft occafion for fo foul an imputation, yet I knew also that his Lordship's kind endeavours to blacken my reputation, would not be altogether ineffectual. Indeed, I was much affected with it, and am fo ftill; tho' his Lordship's declaration of the Reasons of his Charge, have afforded me a great deal of comfort; and I rejoice to find that the ground of all the bad things his Lordship has to fay of me, is, that I quoted a Paffage out of a Book of his; and fhewed A 2 how how much I difliked it; which it seems had been quiet and unmolested for feven Years*. Calumny, Reproach, Noife, Dirt, Scandal, Defamation, and the like words, require more Art to range them decently in Controverfy, than I am master of; and therefore I never intend to make use of them to any Perfon, much lefs to his Lordship: And instead of returning any fuch words, I fhall content my felf with fhewing, that I did not deferve any fuch. At the close of the Vindication, &c. I obferved that his Lordship had endeavoured to write down (or to diminish, as I likewise exprefs it) the Religion of Oaths; and for this only reafon, because it flood in his way. I go on to fay; a reafon which has often carried his Lordship into great extremes. this I give an instance in these words. Of "I remember once, when he was urged (in a difpute about Government) with the example of our bleffed Saviour's fuffering "as applyed by St. 66 Peter, he made no fcru- Lord is much more peculiarly fit to be ur than to SUBJECTS †. A ple to affirm 66 66 ged to SLAVES * Answer to a Calumny, pag. 9. Dr. Atterbury, pag. 65. † Answer to "Doctrine |