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36 LIFE OF TOLAND.postscript, line ninth from the end, instead of, isoften quoted, read, makes great use of Mr. Locke'sprinciples." London, February 1st, 1720."Thus the reverend doctor had the contemptiblemeanness to shelter a bare-faced falsehood, underthe siibterfu2;e of a typographical error.This pitiful conduct of Dr. Hare, producedfrom Mr. Toland, a pamphlet,entitled, A ShortEssay on the Art of Lying ; or, a Defence of a ReverendDignitary, who suffers under the Persecutionof Mr. Toland for a Lapsus Calami.About this time, he published Paidheisticon;sire formula celehrandcB Sodalitatis Socraticce, &c.Some of his enemies pretended this tract was writtento ridicule the Romish and episcopal liturgies;and, as itwas made up of responses, lessons, aphilosophical canon, and a litany;and the wholewritten both in red and black ink, their opinionis perhaps well founded.Mr. Toland was, at alltimes, a rigid advocate for the primitive apostolicsimplicity of the christian religion. This tract,instead of being a proof of our author's heterodoxy,is so far the reverse, that liad Jolm Knoxl)een alive, I am persuaded, he wouhi have thankedhim for it. To this treatise, he prefixed thename of Janus Junius Eoganesius, wJiich, thoughit was his real christian name, and the name ofhis country, was as good a disguitie as he couldhave invented.