Part T. A SJ}nt ~ra Bmte. no Venue, if God no more regard it~ Bnd fin is no fln, if_ag~i~ft noLaw. Indeed while yon live among Believers, where -vtce ts m difgrace, you may for yoar credit/eem to be :'trtuous _: But your Profeffion allowerh us to judge that yotutvo1d no evtl that you dare commit, if it Iilo but fui! with your jlefbly i~tereft•. He that: believeth no Life to come and tells me fo, doth b1d me, m effect , to fuppofe him refolvedf~r all the wickednefs imaginable, fo far as he dare, and bath rempt:>J.tions and opportunity. Are you of this Bnnifh judgement ! I fhall expet't from yom then no better then a brutifh life z and trufi you lefs then I would do a brute, becaufe you have more inrerefi and temptation to do evil , and more cunning to perform it. Are you Brutifts in opinion? Then you are already habitually perjidimJ , cruel, covetom_, malicio'!". murderers, whoremongers ,thieves, lyars, ~nd worfe, 1f any thtng be worfe ! For honeft you cannot for flume expeCt that any fhould eHeem you. I will not believe a word you fay, further then- fome interefi of your own is concerned in the truth of ir. f2.!!_. I 7. If it be not the very Light and LaW of Nature that teacheth and obligeth aman to believe a life to come, h~w corne.r it to pnjs, that aft the world, except 1t few Savagts anJ Ctmnihals , anJhereand there an ApoftMe among us, drJ univerfally profefs tG helieve it ? The Jews, the Turks, the Heathens of mofi Nations, befides the Chriilians , do all make it an Article of their B-elief. Wediffer indeed about the way ( and yet are .all agreed thac God~ line[s and Honefly; fearing <;od, and doing Righteoufm[s, are neceffary) ; but that there i1 another life, we are in almofl all the worl~ agreed. And will you go againft the light of humane Na– ture tt felf? -Or with what face canyou expe& thaa here and there ~ucha wretch as yon, fhould be though wifer then all the wOJ:ld, t1ll you give us beHer evidence of your wifdom? And how jufHy e:io they periih that will follow you? . ~r. 18 . .Arenotthofethltt Believe the Life to come of l: ?tyer ~~~es _(for the generality) then thofe that do not ? And whether IS tt ltk.f that God fhould reveal his mind to them, or unto wicked· wretches ? and is it lik_.er that be fho1:1ld forfake all the holy per· fons of all ages, and giye them up to deceit in the greareft mat– t-ers, whomoft diligently fiady and pray for Knowledge, naber tl~en forfake thofe fenfual wretches that wilfully forfake htm? · · ~r. 19. Isthere not i~ thy own Conf,;e'}Ce ,-at le11ft fome- · U 3 tirms~
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