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n importance, and was fully sensible of his superiority to the men who were enabled by circumstances to annoy and overcome him. It must on the other hand be observed, that no one can read Mr. Fox's papers without immediately perceiving the prevailing bias of his mind to satire, so that his accounts of his contemporaries, where they tend to their disparagement, must be taken with some few grains of allowance. The first serious indication of an approaching storm occurred in 1717; when a Mr. H. Atkins, a zealot for orthodoxy, preached in Mr. Peirce's absence a vehement sermon, charging some of the dissenters of Exeter with damnable heresies, denying the Lord that bought them. Mr. Peirce, on his return, found that a great ferment had been excited, and, at the request of some leading members of his congregation, preached a sermon on the propitiation of Christ. The doctrine of this sermon, from which he has given a long extract in his pamphlet, entitled, The Western Inquisition, seems