I was early innitiated into this important dispute, on which so many laborious volumes have been written.

I published some tracts upon the subject myself, which, as they never sold, I have the consolation of thinking are read only by the happy Few.

Some of my friends called this my weak side; but alas! they had not like me made it the subject of long contemplation.

The more I reflected upon it, the more important it appeared.

I even went a step beyond Whiston in displaying my principles: as he had engraven upon his wife's tomb that she was the only wife of William Whiston; so I wrote a similar epitaph for my wife, though still living, in which I extolled her prudence, oeconomy, and obedience till death; and having got it copied fair, with an elegant frame, it was placed over the chimney-piece, where it answered several very useful purposes.