But if you are capable of coming into any Measures for punishing the Author of the _Difficulties_, &c. for his _Irony_, I conceive, that you may possibly hesitate a little in relation to the same Author, about his _New Defence of the Bishop of_ Bangor_'s Sermon of the Kingdom of Christ, consider'd as it is the Performance of a Man of Letters_; which, tho far below _The Difficulties_, &c. is an ingenious _Irony_ on that _Sermon_. You may probably, like many others of the Clergy, approve of Satire so well employ'd, as against that Bishop, who has succeeded Bishop _Burnet_ in being the Subject of _Clergy-Ridicule_, as well as in his Bishoprick. The Bishop himself was very justly patient, under all Attacks by the Reverend _Trapp_, _Earbery_, _Snape_, _Law_, and _Luke Milbourne_, in his _Tom of Bedlam's Answer to his Brother_ Ben Hoadley, _St._ Peter_'s_ Poor _Parson near the Exchange of Principles_; some of which were of a very abusive kind, and such as can hardly be parallel'd; and did not call upon the Magistrate to come to his Aid against that Author, or against any others of the Clergy who had attack'd him with as great Mockery, Ridicule, and Irony, as ever Bishop had been by the profess'd Adversaries of the Order; or as ever the Bishops had been by the _Puritans_ and _Libellers_ in the Reigns of Queen _Elizabeth_, King _James_ and King _Charles_ the First; or as _Lesley_, _Hickes_, _Hill_, _Atterbury_, _Binks_, and other High-Church Clergy, did the late Bishop _Burnet_. Instead of that he took the true and proper Method, by publishing an _Answer_ to the said _Irony_, compos'd in the same _ironical Strain_, intitled, _The Dean of_ Worcester _still the same: Or his new Defence of the Bishop of_ Bangor_'s Sermon, consider'd, as it is the Performance of a great Critick, a Man of Sense, and a Man of Probity_. Which Answer does, in my Opinion, as much Honour to the Bishop, by its Excellency in the _ironical Way_, as it does by allowing the Method it self, and going into that Method, in imitation of his Reverend Brethren of the Clergy, who appear to be under no Restraints from the _Immorality_ or _Indecency_ of treating the Bishop in the way of Ridicule and with the utmost Contempt; but, on the contrary, to be spurr'd on by the _Excellency_ and _Propriety_ thereof to use it against him, even in the [100] _Pulpit_, as Part of the religious Exercise on the _Lord's-day_.