THE

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

O F

JOHN HILDROP, D. D.

Rector of WATH, in YORKSHIRE.

In TWO VOLUMES.

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 LADY.

VOL. II.

A ModeftApology forthe An-
tient and Honourable Fa-
mily 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.

M DCC LIV.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

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THE

PREFACE.

ΒΥ Y the Importunity of my Friends, I have been prevailed upon to publish in this Form fome loofe Pieces, which at feveral Times I had offered to the Public, and generally without any Name of the Author; by which I had often the Pleafure of hearing them afcribed to Perfons, whofe very Names do me greater Honour 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 A 2

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