Part 11~ i'4J· /.:zfting EndJ ~tnd Motive~, and all ~ooa work.!; and inward vir~·. tHes too thar fhouldproduce them, are taken down. · And by, this time you may fee, what a liner of bears, whar· a pack of raveningdogs, what Cannibals th~ world !hould be· rurned into, by the doctrine of the BrmiftsJ that deny the life to come.. Well! but perhaps you will by this time have fo much fenfe,; as to confefHhat ThreatningJ and PunifomentJ, Hopes and Fears ~f the .State of another Life are necejft~ry to the we(t governing ff thiJ world. And if fo, I defire no more, to famfie any man ' that believes that there is a God, ( and that is any man thu · hath not drowned his wits in fin.) For I. Thi$ will then fhe'.V' that theNature of man, is formed for another life : and God• did not make him fuch invai-n. 2r And certainly if cverlafiing Motivu muft be put into the Laws that: govern us, and into' our Hopes a-nd Fears, then it is · not pofiible, bm fuch things· · there arc to be expeCted. For any man to imagine that ·God, would make a 'world, which he cannot Govern but by falfe.ir hood anddectit, thi$ is to fay that God is no God. For all lying and falfhood comes eirhe-r from awant of Power,or Wifdom,or Goodne(s, whew men either ·eanno& make good their words or otherwife attain their ends; or when they have not wit to k_noW · what is, or was,-or will be , or when they are fo bad as to b'e-- · dif}o[ed to deceive. But he tbat .a.fcr.ibeth any ofthefe to God,t. doth worfe then to fay drat there ·is.- no God. If I hate d~ceic and LyingmJ-ftlf; the God that gave me all that little Good which I have, mufl: hate it more. Dream not of any but a worm;, or fool, or !mpious tyrant, th:It needs--or loves deceit and falfhood to attain their ends. J 11dgeby the frame ofHeaven and Earth, andby that little Good that is in Good men, whether the fi.. ving God be one that needs fuch Hellifb Engines to Rule the· world. If therefore in order to the Government of mankjnd we mu£1: needs Bdieve PI life to come, it is certainly True; And. wh~l d(J not )QU !Relieve rluc .which Government requirerh ")GU'· to h:- .. lievc. · . f2...!!!.r . I~ . Moreover! demand of you, Whetheryou· ta'bJGod t_ndeed to be theGov.errz(}ur of thu world, or not? By [Governour } . I mean properly, One...._that Ruleth the Rational Creature tU fuch; · b) -Mor.. 1t M eans) ev.en L.:.nw and!Exep1.tiom. -. I rxdude not -his Potmtillf,-...
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