DIALOGU. E

BETWIXTA

MASTER and his SCHOLAR,

IN WHICH ARE DISCUSSED
THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS:

BY

F. W RAGG,

MASTER of the BOARDING-SCHOOL, Church Street,
Stoke Newington, Middlesex.

propriety of the external Parade of fome of the Clergy, and
its Inconsistency with the facred Office they affume-The
erroneous ideas that many are too apt to form of an Univerfity
Education, and the real Advantages there enjoyed by the
Student- -The Cause why fome return as ignorant from College,
as when they first set out upon their Studies-
-A proper exercise
of our Reafon in Matters of Religion-Why it ought in many
Inftances to give way to Divine Revelation, and a Plan laid down,
by which contending Parties in Christianity may become more
reconciled The Exiftence of the Deity, and his conftant
Government of the World against the attacks of Atheists and

Infidels.

Γνώθι σεαυτον.

LONDON: Printed in the Year
MDCCLXXXVIII.

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PREFACE.

HE Author of the following pages

THE very fenfible there are many ob

fervations in them which will expose him to the refentment of those who come within the various characters alluded to, and that the method he has pursued in the difcuffion of his fubjects, (although the ancients approved of a dialogue as the most eligible way of expofing abfurdities)will, he is perfuaded, meet with the disapprobation of fome. The literati will be too apt to think lightly of the whole production, from the author having endeavoured in one part to fhew, that