Title continues: "With a particular Vindication of the Characters of Moses, and the Prophets, our Saviour Jesus Christ,and his Apostles, against the unjust Aspersions and False Reasonings of a Book, entitled, The Moral Philosopher." Dr. Leland wrote as a controversialist, refuting others' works. This is the first part of this work refuting the book The Moral Philosopher by Thomas Morgan. The second part was published in 1740.