Select discourses ... . on, viz. I. ThatGod is, 2. That God is a rewarder of them thatfeek him : Wherein is included the Great Article ofthe Immortality of the Soul. Thefe two Principles ac-knowledged by religious and feriout perfons in all That God communicates himfelf to mankind byChrift, The Doctrine of the Immortality of the Souldifcourfedofin the frf place, and why ? Aving finiihd our two fliort Difcourfesconcerning thofe two Anti-Deities^ and Atheifm •, we (hall nowproceed to difcourfe more largely con-cerning the maine»Heads and Principlesof Religion. And here w
Select discourses ... . on, viz. I. ThatGod is, 2. That God is a rewarder of them thatfeek him : Wherein is included the Great Article ofthe Immortality of the Soul. Thefe two Principles ac-knowledged by religious and feriout perfons in all That God communicates himfelf to mankind byChrift, The Doctrine of the Immortality of the Souldifcourfedofin the frf place, and why ? Aving finiihd our two fliort Difcourfesconcerning thofe two Anti-Deities^ and Atheifm •, we (hall nowproceed to difcourfe more largely con-cerning the maine»Heads and Principlesof Religion. And here we are to take Notice of thofe two Cardi-nal points which the Author of the Epiftle to the He-brews makes the neceflary Foundations of all Religion,viz. That God is, and That He is a rewarder of themthat feek him. To which we fhould adde5 The Immor-tality of the Reafonable Soul^hnt that that may feem in-cluded in the former : and indeed we can neither be-lieve any Invisible reward of which he there fpeaks, I 2 without. 6o Of tm hnmortaltty without a Prolepfis of the Souls Immortality ; neithercan we entertain a ferious belief of that, but the notionsof Poena and Premium will naturally follow from it • wenever meet with any who were perfwaded of the for-mer, that ever doubted of the latter: and therefore theformer two have been ufually taken alone for the Firftprinciples of Religion , and have been moft infiftedupon by the Platonifis $ and accordingly a novel Pla-tonift writing a Summary of Plato s Divinity, intitleshis book, De Deo ejr Immortalitate Anim*. An4 alfothe Stoical Philofophy requires a belief of thefe as theCap. ?8. Prolepfes of all Religion, of the one whereof* Epictetushimfelf affures us, i«h on 2> ju^oJiaw, &c. Know thatthe main Foundation of Piety is this, to have opSzls %kro-7v\\&$ right opinions and apprehenfions of God, viz. Thathe is, and that he governs all things jcAjws $ the other is fufficiently infinuated in that Cardi-nal diftindtio
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