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Excerpt from An Essay on the Plan of Salvation But as 'to those persons, if any such there be, who upon the first careless glance are entirely prepared, and think themselves fully qualified, to fix the charge of heresy upon a publication, their sovereign and masterly decision, 1 think, is beneath' the attention' of every reecting mind. Their great and capable minds, it would seem, are under no necessity to submit to the drudgery of close and laborious thinking, in order to distinguish truth from falsehood; but are at once prepared, with intuitive infallibility, to judge of every book and of every subject, without the pains of ex amination, or even almost without reading or hearing them. What is the evidence on which they decide? Such as the follow ing: the thing is a novelty: - l never heard it before -my father. Never believed itz - lt is not believed by our party: - I am sure it is false - Hoping the reader will pardon me for supposing it possi ble, that there may be persons of this sort in the world, I drop the present allusion, and proceed to notice a few other particulars. 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.