. The Christian faith asserted against Deists, Arians, and Socinians : in eight sermons preach'd at the Lady Moyer's lecture in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 1728, 1729, and since greatly enlarged : to which is prefix'd, a large preface concerning the light and the law of nature, and the expediency and necessity of revelation. HERE are two Differentforts of People, who feemat a mighty Diftance fromeach other, and yet approachvery near in the Conclufionand Confequence of theirDodtrines: Thefe are theMeifl^ and the Deift: The Jtheifi^ that Fool^who hath/aid in his Hearty there is no GOD-, an
. The Christian faith asserted against Deists, Arians, and Socinians : in eight sermons preach'd at the Lady Moyer's lecture in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, 1728, 1729, and since greatly enlarged : to which is prefix'd, a large preface concerning the light and the law of nature, and the expediency and necessity of revelation. HERE are two Differentforts of People, who feemat a mighty Diftance fromeach other, and yet approachvery near in the Conclufionand Confequence of theirDodtrines: Thefe are theMeifl^ and the Deift: The Jtheifi^ that Fool^who hath/aid in his Hearty there is no GOD-, andthe Detji, that vain Undertaker, who prefumesto fathom the 4 I. LIII. I. A He X T>eifts Creed He that pretends to believe no God, and Hethat forms a God by his own Imagination arefound in the Conclufion to beheve ahke as tothe Relation, they bear to Him, and the Ac-count, they muft give of their Actions. Andwhen the Detfls Creed is examined, we fhallfind, he believes lefs of a God, and entertainslefs worthy Conceptions of Him, than thofegreat and Virtuous Men among the Heathen,who were fenfible of the Weaknels and Depra-vity of Human Nature, who breathed and pant-ed after Divine Knowledge, and extended theirViews as far, as they could reach, to Heaven. The Dei^s Creed is better known by whathe denys, than by what he profefleth, and, whenall his Negative Articles are colleded, we fhallhave a very llender Account of his Faith. Heis wilhng perhaps to believe a Kind PropitiousBeing, whofe Providence fupports him, andwhofe Mercy will forgive him, \i he fliould beanfwerable for his Actions; But he acknow-ledges no Dutys further, than t
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