which I got by a deceased wife. This, with about fifty guineas in my purse, was my all at present; and I was going up to London, to try if I could meet with any thing fortunate in that place; but that, since he was pleased to make me such generous offers, I would stop, study physic as he proposed, and accept the great honour he did me in offering me his daughter for a wife. I told him likewise very fairly and honestly, that I had been rich by three or four marriages since my being in this country; but that I was unfortunately taken in at a gaming-table, by the means of two Irish gentlemen he knew very well, and there lost all; which vext me the more, as I really do not love play:—that as to my father, I had little to expect from him, tho'

he had a great estate, as our difference was about religion; (which kind of disputes always have the cruellest tendency;) and the wife you know he married, a low cunning woman, does all she can to maintain the variance, and keep up his anger to me, that her nephew may do the better on my ruin. I have not writ to him since my being in England: Nor have I met with any one who could give me any account of the family. This is my case, Sir.
And what (Dr. Fitzgibbons said) is this fine religious dispute, which has made your father fall out with a son he was once so fond of?—It was about trinity in unity, Sir: a thing I have often heard your son argue against by lessons he had from you, as he informed me. My father is as orthodox as Gregory Nazienzen, among the antient fathers, or Trapp and Potter, Webster and Waterland, among the modern doctors; and when he found out, that I was become an unitarian, and renounced his religion of three Gods, the horrible creed of Athanasius, and all the despicable explications of his admired divines, on that subject; — that I insisted, that notwithstanding all the subtle inventions of learned men, through the whole christian world, yet God Almighty hath not appointed himself to be worshipped by precept or example in any one instance in his holy word,

under the character of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; — that the worship of three persons and one God is expresly contrary to the solemn determination of Christ and his Apostles;— and in numbers of instances in the New Testament it is declared, that