Note 300 — SERMON LIII. PREACHED FEBRUARY 5, 1775.
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This effect of inquiry upon the Gentile religions was foreseen by men of sense—Non sunt ista [the traditionary tales of the heathen Gods] vulgo disputanda, ne susceptas publicè religiones disputatio talis extinguat. Cic. Frag. Olivet. T. III. p. 586.