THE DEIST; OR, MORAL PHILOSOPHER. BEING AN IMPARTIAL INQUIRY AFTER Moral and Theological Truths: SELECTED FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE MOST CELEBRATED AUTHORS IN "Slave to no Sect, who takes no private road "And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, POPE. London: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY R. CARLILE, 55, FLEET STREET. DEDICATION. TO THE SOCIETY, SELF-STYLED A SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE. IN dedicating the first volume of this work to you as a Society, I am at a loss how I should address you, whether as Ladies and Gentlemen, or my Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, or whether I should distinguish those Right Reverend Fathers in God the Bishops, and the numerous clergy, which are alleged to belong to your Society; however, should I fail in noticing the proper rank to which the more illustrious part of your Society aspires, I trust that you will not attribute it to any inattention or want of respect on. my part, but rather be inclined to admit, that it has arisen on the ground of your own neglect in not publishing your names for so many years past, and thereby denying the public the gratification of bestowing that praise on your virtuous and disinterested motives which you might individually merit. You have been graciously pleased to commence a prosecution against the Principles of Nature, by Elihu Palmer, as contained in this volume, which I doubt not you condescended to do in consequence of my request to that effect in a letter I lately addressed to you. Your coadjutor, the Attorney-General, (Shepherd) has as yet done me no further honour than to |