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eformer is a much fitter man to win Money by his skill at a game of Whisk and Swabbers, than as the case of Allegiance, and Morality, stand with him, to win Souls from Reprobation by the Integrity of his Principles. I must treat ye with one instance more of his _Hypocrisie_, and then I pass on to another Head. This instance I find Mr _Vanbrook_ has taken particular notice of at the latter end of his Book, where, 'tis true, every one may see the _Absolvers_ Foible is very plain, but that Author has not made the Case parallel with the others Remark upon _Mr. Congreve_'s Comedy the _Old Batchelor_, which shews his contradiction of himself, and his fallacy undeniable, for there he seems to roar at young _Belmour_ for his forgetfulness of Religion, at a minute when he is desiring _Letitia to give him leave to swear by her Lips and Eyes_, when he is kissing and telling her, _Eternity was in that moment_. [Footnote: Collier, p. 63.] In short, when he has got her fast in his Arms, and intends to go through stitch with the matter; for which he calls the Lady Strumpet, and raves at the smuttiness of the Action; and yet, a little while after, in another page, rallies, jokes upon, and banters young _Worthy_ in the _Relapse_, for letting his Lady slip through his fingers, and calls him a _Town-Spark_, and a _Platonick Fool_ for't. [Footnote: Collier, p. 127.] Hey Jingo, here's Riddling for ye! what would this whimsical Gentleman be at? first he rails at a Lover for holding a pretty Woman fast, and then he jokes upon him for letting her go; this runs almost parallel with the Fable of the Satyr and the Traveller; but if the Doctor is observ'd to have the faculty of blowing hot and cold thus, I believe he may keep his breath either to cool his Porridge, or to warm his fingers, and be much better employ'd, than by using it to make any Proselytes to his Doctrine; and so much for this Head. Now let us try if we can scratch another, and find it out under his Night-cap of _Immorality._ It is not enough to prove a Man is a Moralist, only because he is noted for a Regular Life; that may be one good instance indeed; but it can never arrive to a proof of the whole, for his living Soberly, and by Rule, may as well be caus'd by the defect of his Constitution, as by the effect of his Inclination, but 'tis the Spirit and Will, by the fire of whose other Virtues, this of Morality is kindled and illustrated. Now I will not be so byass'd b
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