Warburton was further kept busy by replying the attacks on his "Divine Legation" from all quarters, by a dispute with Bolingbroke respecting Pope's behaviour in the affair of Bolingbroke's "Patriot King", and by a vindication in 1750 of the alleged miraculous interruption of the rebuilding of the temple of Jerusalem undertaken by Julian, in answer to Conyers Middleton. According to the "Encyclopædia Britannica" Eleventh Edition, "Warburton's manner of dealing with opponents was both insolent and rancorous, but it did him no disservice."