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24 LIFE OF TOLAND.
" Mr. Toland must
Mr. Blackall expressly says,
" mean the books of the New Testament," because
he knows of no other.
Excellent logician
In order to vindicate himself, Mr. Toland published
Amyntor, in which he re-doubles his arguments,
to
prove Dr. Gauden the author of Icon
Basilike; and, at the same time,
published a list
of supposititious pieces, ascribed to Christ, his
apostles, and other eminent men, extending to no
less than forty-three octavo pages.
After ha\ing
given that cataloguey he proceeds thus
" Here is a long catalogue for Mr. Blackall,
" who, it is probable, will not think the more
" meanly of himself, for being unacquainted ^nth
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these pieces : nor, if that were all, should I be
" forward to think the worse of him on this ac-
" count: but I think he is to blame, for denying
" that there were any such, because he knew no-
" thing of them; much less should lie infer from
" thence, that I denied the scriptures; which
" scandal, however, as proceeding from ignorance,
" I heartily forgive him, as every good christian
" ought to do."
What a calm, dignified, christian
reply, to the
very man, who, without the least shadow of fact,
proclaimed Mr. Toland an impudent and shameless
infidel, before the whole House of Commons.
Poor Mr. Bhickall was obliged to say something
or other in his own defence. He published a
pamphlet, wherein he labours hard to prove, that