Relating to thofe VOLUMES. In feveral LETTERS to a FRIEND, To which is added, REFLECTIONS on the late Lord BOLINGBROKE'S The THIRD EDITION, corrected and enlarged. WITH A LARGE INDEX to the THREE VOLUMES. BY JOHN LELAND, D. D. LONDON: Printed for B. DOD, at the Bible and Key, in Ave-Mary- M DCC LVI. PREFACE. A That S in the Conclufion of the fecond volume of the View of the Deiftical Writers, I feemed to have finished the whole defign, I think myself obliged to give some account to the public of the reafon of publifhing another volume fo foon after the former. which gave occafion to it was this: Since the publication of the former volumes, I have received fome Letters relating to the fubject of them, which have put me upon reconfidering fome things in them, and making farther additions and illuftrations, which, I hope, may be of advantage to the main defign. I had alfo by me, as was hinted in the Preface to the fecond volume, feveral obfervations which were originally defigned to be inferted in that volume, but which were omitted, when I found it enlarged fo much beyond my expectation. Some friends were willing to have them published, A 2 and |