The cobler's letter to the author of Thelyphthora [M. Madan], intended as a supplement to Mr. Hill's address, intitled, "The blessings of polygamy." ... / [Sir Richard Hill].

  • Hill, Richard, Sir, 1733-1808.
Date:
1781
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Credit: The cobler's letter to the author of Thelyphthora [M. Madan], intended as a supplement to Mr. Hill's address, intitled, "The blessings of polygamy." ... / [Sir Richard Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on account of fome expreffions in a piece published by the intitled, if I remem¬ ber right, ic The knowledge of Chrift.” If indeed I had made any of God's difpenfations the fubjefts of raillery, I fhould think my friend did me no unkindnefs at all in ranking me (indirectly at leaft) with Lord Bolingbroke or Voltaire. But I deny that Polygamy ever was of God’s injlitution, or any part of his difpenfa- tions.——But, if it were not for a lit¬ tle facetious raillery, and a few pleafant ftories, what muft have been the fate of cThelyphthora? If, notwithftanding all the variety of entertaining matter with which that tfreatife abounds, any perfon could be fo ftupid as to yawn and nod at the read¬ ing it, as the whole court of Charles the Second did at the hearing Doblor South's fermons; [B] I fay, what muft it have been if the author had not by mixing [B] Old South a witty churchman reckon’d. Was preaching once to Charles the fecond. But far too ferious for a court Which of all preaching made a fport. The good and zealous man of God, Obferv’d his audience yawn and nody And finding nothing wou’d avail, Call’d to the trail of tjaaclc} dale^ 4,6 My Lord, why ’tis a monftrous thing, You fnore fo loud, you’ll wake the king.’1 the