92 The Living Temple. Part IL toprove it. Thefe holy Writings were not intended, by their Affirmation of it, to inform us of God's Exiftence, which theyfaippofe, and do not prove, As a thing we may otherwife be cer- tain of. But to teach us our Duty to- wards him, and what our Expe Cati- ons may be from him. And do there- fore, give us a true Reprefentation and Difcovery of his Nature (fo far as it was needful for uspreparatively, firft to know it) and then next, of the prefent ftate of things, between him and us, that we might be. directed how to ap- ply our (elves to him, fuitably to both the one, and theother. 'Tis true, that we can never know that there is a God, without knowing fomewhat of his Nature, or what a one Ift is. Wecannot fo much as 'enquire whether he be, or no, but we muff: haveforte Notion, in our Minds, of the thing, we enquire about. And fomuch as is neceffary to this purpofe, may be plainly gathered in the way we have gone hitherto. For if we underffand the dif-Ference between forzething and nothing, between Being and no Being, and find thatfoniething is, or that there is erne Being 5 and again, ifwe under- ft and
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