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Christian Orators

worthily and well, (so for want of other, making Virtue her own Reward) was all the Heathens could advance with any Certainty in the Cause; whereas, the Christian is supplied with all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge, which God hath abundantly poured forth upon the World.

The only Account, my Lord, that I can give, why Tully for Example could talk so well in the Cause of Virtue under all the Disadvantage of Argument[errata 1], and why we under a clearer Light, and furnished with a richer Vein of Eloquence, do yet in Arguments of a moral Nature fall below him, is this,

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Errata

  1. Original: Arguments was amended to Argument: detail