0 f tlie Relif;FotiT~. D3'7 fipid jefl:s whercwith they perfecute rel1g:i?-– on, and thofe who,praetifc it or Fecon1n1~~d·: · it! what thoug!1ts they are like· ro havlof them '..vhen Gcknefs fhall arreft, and death threaten then1·; ·when the phyGcians have forfaken rhem, and the poor defpifed Mini~ fter is ca1led in, and they expecting. ~oln- . fort from hi1n t:hey were wont to n1ock, and perhaps it is little he (an afferd them!' 0 that the] r-t)Jere wife an:d tt-nder/lood this,, , that they wou!f confider their latter end. . . . ~here are others who have not yet arnv– ed to. this height of profanenefs, t0 laugh at all religion; but do vent their mali~e· at thofe who·· arc more comfcientiO\lS·and! fevere than themfelves, under prefamption tha-t they are hypocrites and diifcmblers. But befides that in this they may be guilty 0f a great deal. of uncharitablenefs, itis rob~ fufpecred that they bear fome fecret diflike to piety itfelf, and hate hypocrifyn1ore for its refetnblance of that, than, for its own. vitioufnefs: otherwife whence comes it.thac they do not, exprefs the fan1e animofity a... gain fl: other vices·?. Hitherto alfo.n1ay· we refer. fhofe expre6- - fions whieh fon1etin1es drop fron1 perfons· not fo utterly debauched~ but ~ which yet are blafphel110USandprofane; that thi~ n1an M · -> l·s ~)J J /
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