Note 38 — Chapter XX · THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE.

An ancestor of mine, Dr. Burthogge, a great friend of John Locke, wrote, I regret to say it, a book to prove the eternity of torments; so I felt it a kind of hereditary duty to give him a lift. The arguments, such as they are, of my wealthy and therefore revered ancestor are contained in a work whose title is “Causa Dei; or, an Apology for God,” wherein the perpetuity of infernal torments is evinced, and Divine justice (that not­with­stand­ing) defended. By Richard Burthogge, M.D. London: Imprinted at the Three Daggers, Fleet Street, 1675.