THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS O F JOHN HILDROP, D. D. Rector of WATH, in YORKSHIRE. LONDON: Printed by Charles Rivington, For JOHN and JAMES RIVINGTON, at the Bible MDCC LIV. THE PREFA C E. Y the Importunity of my Friends, I have been prevailed upon to publish in this Form fome loofe Pieces, which at feveral Times I had offered to the Public, and generally without any Name of the Author; by which I had often the Pleafure of hearing them afcribed to Perfons, whofe very Names do me greater Honour than I could ever expect to receive or deferue. Thus the Letter to a Member of Parliament was generally afcribed to Dean SWIFT ; and I was affured by a great Dignitary in the Church, that my Reflections upon Reason were writ by the |