However, not to urge the Argument for Liberty of Debate any farther, which has been already by others treated on to Perfection, and will be again returned, I doubt not, by some body else, on occasion of this _Bishop_'s _Dedication_, I can't but take Notice here how unpolitick, as well as unchristian, some Dissenters are in this Controversy, being, such as Dr. _Harris_, and Mr. _Atkinson_, no less for Persecution than the _Clergy_. If they had a Regard to their own Interests and Liberties, they would be silent. Infidels (of whom I am none) should be consider'd as Dissenting Brethren, whom they should not be forward to oppress, for fear in time, and by degrees, it should come to their own Turn. Our _Dissenters_ indeed, collectively, are vastly numerous, and a potent Party, but may trust too much to their own Strength and Numbers. Taking them separately, they may possibly be Extinguish'd by Ecclesiastical Art and Craft. If Blasphemy is a just Pretence for the Prosecution of me, the _Clergy_, upon Occasion, can urge the same Crime against them. I'll tell them a Story. The _Calvinists_ and _Socinians_ were once equally tolerated in _Poland_, and if they had been fast Friends to each other, the _Papists_ could never have suppress'd them: But the _Calvinists_ joining with the _Papists_, and urging them to complain against the _Socinians_ for Blasphemy, in denying the Divinity of the Son of God, moved the Civil Authority to a Banishment of them; and the _Socinians_ had not been long suppress'd, before the _Papists_ accus'd the _Calvinists_ of no less Blasphemy, in denying Adoration to the Virgin _Mary_; and so they were sent packing too; otherwise they might both have enjoy'd their Liberty to this Day. The Application of the Story is easy. So if all we _Dissenters_ from the Church, whether we like one another's Principles or not, don't hold together for the Preservation of our Liberties, it's easy for Ecclesiasticks to feign an Accusation of _Blasphemy_ against any of us. We have no Security, but in the Wisdom and Goodness of an excellent Government, which, if the _Clergy_ should ever get on the Back of, its hardly a Question, whether they would not drive, _Jehu_ like, most furiously. But to return to my _Bishop_. I once thought he would never have been drawn into this Controversy. Sometime after the Publication of my Third _Discourse_, which, for a visible Reason, I dedicated to him, and invited him to Battle, I ask'd a dignify'd _Clergy-man_, Whether the _Bishop_ would write against me? He answer'd, No: Whereupon I concluded, that he had a Scent of somewhat, not here to be mention'd. But my repeated Provocations of him afterwards, have forc'd him, against Inclination, to engage me. His Passion got the better of his Reason, or he had been certainly quiescent: And the Violence of his Passion is so visible thro' his whole Book, that it's God's great Mercy it did not throw him into a Fever and Convulsions, to the Danger of his Life and Health.