Revelation examined with candour, or, A fair enquiry into the sense and use of the several revelations expresly declared, or sufficiently implied, to be given to mankind from the creation, as they are found in the Bible . very virtue lives, and is efteemed inthe world ? Who is {o ignorant, as not to kno w^that this meanefi: denomination of men fubiiflsupon earth, Uke the meaneft fpecies of infedts:by tieslng and tainting to the utmofl: of theirmalignant might j and then feeding wherethey have infe<fted? But, God be praifed^their impotence affects nothing but infirmity Iand the flighteft fen
Revelation examined with candour, or, A fair enquiry into the sense and use of the several revelations expresly declared, or sufficiently implied, to be given to mankind from the creation, as they are found in the Bible . very virtue lives, and is efteemed inthe world ? Who is {o ignorant, as not to kno w^that this meanefi: denomination of men fubiiflsupon earth, Uke the meaneft fpecies of infedts:by tieslng and tainting to the utmofl: of theirmalignant might j and then feeding wherethey have infe<fted? But, God be praifed^their impotence affects nothing but infirmity Iand the flighteft fence is fecurity againfl difference, I hope, will be allowedbetween us, on this occalion: I write, fromthe didates of a good confciencei it is theirs tofee, if they reproach not from the influenceof an evil: I write from the clearefl convidtion 5let them beware, that they rail not from corrup-tion. This I will fay without fcruple ; I reafonfrom the light of an humble, an honeil, anda diligent inquiry ; and, if they ridicule, theyridicule from the depth of a lazy, and a con-ceited ignorance. How far that ignorance willacquit them at the great day of account, Godonly know^s. Pi$- Revelation Examined, Sec. ^^. DlSSERTAlriON III.
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