A Preface. xiii clearly detnonflrable, or not at all difco- verable, the rational Way. And laftly, thew how it hath come topats, if God be'itch as he bath been reprefented, fo capable of a Temple withMan, fo apt, and inclin'd to inha- bitfuch a One ; that he fbould ever not dofo ; or how fuch a Temple (hould e- ver ceafe, or be uninhabited, and defo- late, that the knownway of its Reflitu- tion may be the more regardable, and ma.avellous in our Eyes. TheAuthors againft whom we are tobe concern'd,are Benedittus Spinofa 7em, and anAnonymous French Writer, who pretends to confute him. And the better toprepare our way, we (hall go on to preface fomething concerning the former, viz.. Spinofa, whole Scheme t,thowith great pretence t As it is of Devotion, it acknowledges a Deity, laid boo yet fo confounds this krisfactitious Dei- in his Pofihm- t with every Sub antial Being in the Y . mou.c .8 . World betides 3 that upon the whole thick. it appears altogether inconfiftent with any rational Exercife or Sentiment of Religion at all. And, indeed, the weer pointing with the Finger, at the molt difcerni- ble,aud abfurdWeaknefs of fumeofhis A 4 principal
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