THE

MISCELLANEOUS WORK S

OF

JOHN HILDROP, D.D.

Rector of WATH, in YORKSHIRE.

In TWO VOLUME S.

CONTAINING,

VOL. I.

An ESSAY for the better Re-
gulation and Improvement
of FREE-THINKING.
An ESSAY on HONOUR.
FREE THOUGHTS upon the
BRUTE-CREATION: In
two Letters to a LADY.

VOL. II.

A Modeft Apology for the Antient and Honourable Family of the WRONGHEADS. A Propofal for Revifing, &c. the Ten Commandments. Contempt of the CLERGY. Life of Simon Shallow, Efq;

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed by Charles Rivington,

For JOHN and JAMES RIVINGTON, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard.

MDCC LIV.

828
H6445
1754

vil.

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PREFACE.

ΒΥ
r the Importunity of my Friends, I
have been prevailed upon to publish
in this Form fome loofe Pieces, which at
Several Times I had offered to the Pub-
lic, and generally without any Name of
the Author; by which I had often the
Pleafure of hearing them afcribed to Per-
fons, whofe very Names do me greater Ho-
nour than I could ever expect to receive or
deferve. Thus the Letter to a Member
of Parliament was generally afcribed to
Dean Swift; and I was affured by a
great Dignitary in the Church, that my
Reflections upon Reason were writ by the

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