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Of all the kinds of Vanity, that may be ranked among the highest, or rather may claim a certain supremacy, which some persons are com∣monly subject to, who, to gain the repute of ingenuity with others, speak such things as cannot fall from them, without a secret compunction upon the delivery thereof. Of this predicament are they, who employ their drollery upon the subject of Obscenity,
and Atheism. As to the for∣mer, the greatest end they can propose to themselves, is, to have it imagin'd, that their forces, as to the Venereal Mi∣litia, have been, or are, in some measure, answerable to the Muster they make of them in their discourse, or at least, that their well-wishes and in∣clinations to the service are as great as ever. Of the latter, this may be said, that their satyrizing in divine concerns discovers their unsetled ap∣prehensions of a future Being, and begets, in those whom they seem to divert, a secret horrour for their positions, and a dis∣respect for their persons.