t his own. _Scrub_, in the _Beaux
Stratagem_, had found it out long ago: he considers himself as
acting the different parts of all the servants in the family;
and so _Scrub_, the coachman, ploughman, or justice's clerk,
might contract with _Scrub_, the butler, for such a quantity
of ale as the other assumed character demanded."--Appendix, p.
261.

[159] "Monthly Review," vol. xvi. p. 324, the organ of the
dissenters.

[160] See article HOBBES, for his system. The great Selden was an
_Erastian_; a distinction extremely obscure. _Erastus_ was a
Swiss physician of little note, who was for restraining the
ecclesiastical power from all temporal jurisdiction. Selden
did him the honour of adopting his principles. Selden wrote
against the _divine right_ of tithes, but allowed the _legal_
right, which gave at first great offence to the clergy, who
afterwards perceived the propriety of his argument, as Wotton
has fully acknowledged.

[161] It does not always enter into the design of these volumes to
examine those great works which produced _literary quarrels_.
But some may be glad to find here a word on this original
project.

The grand position of the _Divine Legation_ is, that the
knowledge of the immortality of the soul, or a future
state of reward and punishment, is absolutely necessary in
the moral government of the universe. The author shows how it
has been inculcated by all good legislators, so that no
religion could ever exist without it; but the Jewish could,
from its peculiar government, which was theocracy--a
government where the presence of God himself was perpetually
manifested by miracles and new ordinances: and hence
temporal rewards and punishments were sufficient for that
people, to whom the unity and power of the Godhead were
never doubtful. As he proceeded, he would have opened a new
argument, viz., that the Jewish religion was only the
_part_ of a revelation, showing the necessity of a further one
for its _completion_, which produced Christianity.

When Warburton was in good spirits with his great work (for he
was not always so), he wrote thus to a friend:--"You judge
right, that the _next_ volume of the D. L. will