MISCELLANEOUS AND FUGITIVE PIECES. VOLUME E THE FIRST. LONDON: Printed for T. DAVIES, in Ruffel-Street, CoventGarden, Bookfeller to the Royal Academy. A THIRD VOLUME OF MISCELLANEOUS AND FUGITIVE PIECES IS IN THE PRESS, A N D WILL BE PUBLISHED VERY SPEEDILY. A REVIEW OF A FREE ENQUIRY. INTO THE NATURE and ORIGIN of EVIL. THI HIS is a Treatise confifting of Six Letters upon a very difficult and important Question, which I am afraid this Author's Endeavours will not free from the Perplexity, which has intangled the Speculatifts of all Ages, and which must always continue while we fee but in part. He calls it a Free Enquiry, and indeed his Freedom is, I think, greater than his Modefty. Though he is far from the contemptible Arrogance, or the impious Licentiousness of Bolingbroke, yet he decides too eafily upon Queftions out of the reach of human Determination, with too little Confideration of mortal Weakness, and with too much Vivacity for the neceffary Caution. In the firft Letter on Evil in general, he observes, that it is the Solution of this important Queftion, whence came Evil, alone, that can afcertain the 'moral Characteristic of God, without which there is an End of all Diftinction between Good and · Evil." # B |