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THE

CREE D

OF AN

Independent Whig :

WITH AN

Orthodox Introduction,

CONCERNING

Canons, Councils, Mifteries, Miracles, and Church-Authority.

First Printed in the YEAR, 1720.

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TO ALL

BELIEVERS,

The ORTHODOX AUTHOR fendeth Greeting;

HE Opinions of Mankind are as various as their Complexions; and he must be a very bad

Markfman, who fhoots among a Crowd of People and miffes every one: But notwithstanding there is such a Diversity of Faith in the World, yet I am perfuaded I shall meet with many who will heartily embrace my Sentiments in the following Creed. I challenge the Universe to difprove any one Article; and what makes me the more fanguine herein, is, that I am very well affured that B 2 there

there is not a Tenet which can be justly called Pfeudodox.

I am fenfible of the numerous Herds of Bigots, who will not allow a Man to have a Competency of Orthodox Learning, who has not trifled away a few Years at a University; but if we would follow the Example of the good Hufbandman, and purge our Granaries, we should quickly find more Tares than good Corn.

It grieves me to fee that the World has fuch a just Caufe to reflect on Alma Mater, and affirm, that (for many Years paft, and even to this Day) inftead of adminiftring wholefom Nourishment, fhe has, and does, viciate the moft hale Conftitutions. Oh, that fhe would retrieve her loft Reputation of being one of the belt Nurfes in Christendom! But her Milk is become four, and curdles in each tender Stomach.

I have spent many a tedious Night in fearching diligently into the Lives and Characters of the Primitive BELIEVERS; nor have I been remifs in endeavouring to difcover the Manners and Behaviour of the Moderns: For the Satisfaction therefore of our Houshold, to corroborate the Weak, to establish the Wavering,

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