Warburton has seized this idea, which he distorts, by rendering it too general and absolute, (Divine Legation, vol.iv.p.

126, &c.)] [Footnote 90: The imitation of Paganism is the subject of Dr.
Middleton's agreeable letter from Rome.

Warburton's animadversions obliged him to connect (vol.iii.p.

120-132,) the history of the two religions, and to prove the antiquity of the Christian copy.] [Footnote 9011: But there was always this important difference between Christian and heathen Polytheism.

In Paganism this was the whole religion; in the darkest ages of Christianity, some, however obscure and vague, Christian notions of future retribution, of the life after death, lurked at the bottom, and operated, to a certain extent, on the thoughts and feelings, sometimes on the actions .-- M.].