With regard to Hume's readers seeing immediately what he was doing (mentioned in the previous post), here is Warburton, with his usual unrestrained sarcasm and 'raillery', as Hume called it:
The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author By William Warburton, Richard Hurd