I must venture to add, without mincing the matter, what I really believe, of this Book.---It will live on, through Posterity, with such unbounded Extent of Good Consequences, that Twenty Ages to come may be the Better and Wiser, for its Influence. It will steal first, imperceptibly, into the Hearts of the _Young_ and the _Tender_: where It will afterwards guide and moderate their Reflections and Resolves, when grown Older. And so, a gradual moral Sunshine, of un-austere and compassionate _Virtue_, shall break out upon the _World_, from this TRIFLE (for such, I dare answer for the _Author_, His Modesty misguides him to think it).----No Applause therefore can be too _high_, for _such Merit_. And, let me abominate the contemptible _Reserves of mean-spirited Men_, who while they but _hesitate_ their Esteem, with Restraint, can be fluent and uncheck’d in their _Envy_.----In an Age so deficient in Goodness, Every such Virtue, as That of this Author, is a salutary _Angel_, in _Sodom_. And _One_ who cou’d stoop to conceal, a Delight he receives from the _Worthy_, wou’d be equally capable of submitting to an Approbation of the _Praise_ of the _Wicked_. I was thinking, just now, as I return’d from a _Walk_ in the _Snow_, on that _Old Roman Policy_, of Exemptions in Favour of Men, who had given a few, bodily, Children to the Republick.----What superior Distinction ought _our_ Country, to find [_del._ 8th] {(but that Policy and We are at Variance)} for Reward of this _Father, of Millions of_ MINDS, which are to owe new Formation to the future Effect of his Influence! Upon the whole, as I never met with so pleasing, so honest, and so truly deserving a Book, I shou’d never have done, if I explain’d All my Reasons for admiring its Author.----If it is not a _Secret_, oblige me so far as to tell me his _Name_: for since I feel him the _Friend_ of my Soul, it would be a Kind of Violation to retain him a _Stranger_.----I am not able to thank you enough, for this highly acceptable Present. And, as for my Daughters, They have taken into their Own Hands the Acknowledgment due from their Gratitude. I am, DEAR SIR, _Your, &c._ Dec. 17, 1740. _Abstract of a second Letter from the same Gentleman._