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"fome would obey Nimrod who then began to affect an Empire over the reft, and fome "would not, and fo they parted". Does the t Text feem to imply no more than this? Will sit not bear, nay does it not literally require the Interpretation which I give, and not I alone, but the Generality of Commentators, both Jews and Chriftians? Let us confound their Language, fays Mofes, that they may not UNDERSTAND one anothers SPEECH. What need we recurr to a Metaphor when the literal Interpretation is neither unworthy of God, nor unfuitable to his Way of governing the World at that Time? There was but Language at that Time, fays Mofes; does not that intimate that very foon after there were more? Mr. Le Clerc's confounding one Lip, and one Language has been spoken to already. Let him produce one Inftance where Lip, when metaphorically taken, fignifies neceffarily Agreement in Opinion, and cannot more commodiously be interpreted Language, and I have done. Though if that should be allowed, it does not affect the main of my Argument, which is taken from the original Texture of thofe Languages, which for fome Thoufands of Years have differed the moft from one another. However fince very learned and very good Men have formerly thought, and do ftill think otherwife, it does not become me to be too dogmatical. I may be mistaken, though I fhall believe that I have spent my

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Time to very excellent Purpofe, if I fhall by what I have here faid, excite abler Judges to examine this Question more thoroughly than in my Opinion it has yet been examined. If I can fungi vice cotis, if I fharpen the Iron, I am not folicitous whether I myself cut or not. And in propofing hereby to publish the Sense I have long had of the Advantage I have received by your Friendship, which I fhall always honour and value as it deferves, I fhall not, I cannot lose my Aim, whatsoever I may do in any Thing else. I am, &c.

Nov. 25. 1713.

N. B. This Difcourfe was printed by Mr. Chamberlayne in his Collection of Lord's-Prayers, but with great Difadvantage both to the Author and the Reader. The frequent Miftakes committed it, were fo obvious, that they could not escape without Cenfure. And I thought it but Justice due to Dr. Wotton's Memory, to give an Edition as it came from bis own Hand.

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Just Published,

R. Wotton's Edition of the WELSH LAWS, with a GLOSSARY, explaining the Welsh Law Terms; an APPEN Dix of original Records; and a PREFACE, containing an Enquiry into the State of the Provincial Britains, and the Nature of the WELSH LAWS, wherein Mr. Somner's Arguments against the Welsh Gavelkind are examined, the Original of our Grand and Petty Juries accounted for, the different Opinions of our Antiquaries concerning the Value of the Saxon Pound reconciled, and feveral Miftakes in our Hiftorians corrected.