THE

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OF THE LATE RIGHT HONOURABLE

HENRY ST. JOHN,

LORD VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE.

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LORD BOLINGBROKE

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ERTATA.

P. 60. 1. 5. for this Duad read his Duad.

92. I. 3. from the bottom, for Sabellus read Sabellius. 120. I. 9. for unbelievers that, read unbelievers, that

ESSAY THE FOURTH,

CONTINUED.

CHRIS

SECTION XXII.

HRISTIANITY had not been established many centuries in the West, before a claimi to universal property was set on foot in favour of the faithful, that is of Christians; nor before the bishop of Rome claimed universal empire, not only over the religious, but over all civil societies. St. Austin shall vouch for what I advance here on the first head, and what I say on the second has publick notoriety for it's voucher. The saint, in a letter to Macedonius*, takes notice of a passage in the Proverbs of Solomont, which runs to this effect in the Septuagint version. "To the faithful man

belongs a whole world of riches; to the infidel," or unfaithful, not even a farthingt." What sense the passage may receive, I inquire not: but this is the comment of St Austin upon it. "have property in that which we possess of

* Ep. 54, ed. Basil.

+ Prov. xvii, 6.

"We

Fidelis hominis totus mundus divitiarum est, infidelis autem nec obolus.

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