The Cork surgeon's antidote, : against the Dublin apothecary's poyson. For the citizens of Dublin. / By Anthony Litten.

Date:
1749
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Credit: The Cork surgeon's antidote, : against the Dublin apothecary's poyson. For the citizens of Dublin. / By Anthony Litten. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    raifed my Curiofity, to fee more of the fuppofed Author s W orks ; And indeed, my Correfpondent has Packetted me, at fueh a Rate, that I have been forced to flop his Hand, left the voluminous Writings fhould ingrofs all my Time ; Or by conflant Reading thereof, I fhould become mafler of the Stile, and hefpatter, every Body, I met in the Street. From the Specimen I firfF faw, I had no Foundation to hope, that I fhould fee much of the Sort, which a fober, intelli¬ gent Man would relifh : But hearing how powerfully his Works had operated, upon many People in DUBLIN, (the Scene of Adlion,) I grew earneft, to find out the en¬ chanting Quality : And, l think, I have difcovered it.— It confifis, in abufing ALDERMEN ;-in rafhly treating of POLITICKS, which he neither underflands himfelf, nor means others fhould underfland -in impudently, falfly and feditioufly, Calumniating all his SUPERIORS, not even (paring His SACRED MAJESTY, or His VICE-GE- RENT ;-in making no more of PARLIAMENTS, than of a Con->oany of BARBERS;--in uttering flrange, bold UNTFU THS And in undertaking, promifing and vowing, that all Things fhall be reformed, at his Gracious and Omnipotent Nod, as foon as they inveft him, with the neceffary Commiffion and Authority. Meeting the Word, ALDERMEN, in every line almoft of the learned, Author’s Works, it brought to my Mind a Story, which I fhall beg leave to trouble my Reader with. ■-When it was yet doubtful, whether Epifcopacy or Prejbytery fhould prevail in SCOTLAND, a zealous Mini- fler of the Prefbyterian Church, never omitted to inveigh againfl PRE—LA—CY, in the Pulpit: At length, a Gen¬ tleman, ever one of his Congregation, offended at this con- troverfial, uninflrucfl ing Manner of entertaining the Audito¬ ry, took him to Tafk. The good Teacher excufed himfelf, by faying, there was not a Text, in the Bible, which was not dire&ly againfl PRE—LA—CY. The Gentleman replied, that he believed there was one, if he would make Ufe of it. The Teacher confented, to take it; And the Gentleman named, the firft Verfe, of the firfl Chapter of Qcnefis.-Sunday came, The Minifler mounted Lis Pul¬ pit, and gave out his ’Text; In the Beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth.-Now were all Prefent atten¬ tive, expelling a fine Difcourfe, upon the Power and Wif- dom