Select discourses ... . ftrengthens it. That Epicurifm u but Atheifm under a mask. A Confutation of Epicurus his Mafter-notion, togetherwith fome other pretences and Dogmata of his Sett. The true knowledge of Nature is advantageous to Re-ligion. That Superftition is more tolerable then Atheifm. That Atheifm is both ignoble and uncomfortable. What low and unworthy Notions the Epicureans had con-cerning Man s Happinef: and what trouble they wereput to How to define, and Where to place true Happi-neffe. A true belief of a Deity fupports the Soul with a prefentTranquillity and future Hopes, Were i
Select discourses ... . ftrengthens it. That Epicurifm u but Atheifm under a mask. A Confutation of Epicurus his Mafter-notion, togetherwith fome other pretences and Dogmata of his Sett. The true knowledge of Nature is advantageous to Re-ligion. That Superftition is more tolerable then Atheifm. That Atheifm is both ignoble and uncomfortable. What low and unworthy Notions the Epicureans had con-cerning Man s Happinef: and what trouble they wereput to How to define, and Where to place true Happi-neffe. A true belief of a Deity fupports the Soul with a prefentTranquillity and future Hopes, Were it not for a Deny, the World would be unhabitable. A SHORT DISCOURSE ATHEISM \E have now done with what we intendedconcerning Superftition, and fhall a littleconfider and fearch into the Pedigree of A-_ THEISM, which indeed hath fo much af- finity with Superftition that it may feem to have thefame Father with it. OJ* weTa-i £hvs 7t) 0 aS-g©*, 0 $£ei<n£cufjy)y a f&KttoLi. Superftition could be well con- G tent. w_ X w 41 Of Athiifm. tent there were no God to trouble or difquietit, andAtheifm thinks there is none. And as Superflitionisengendred by a bafe opinion of the Deity as cruell andtyrannical} (though it be afterwards brooded andhatcht by ajlavijh fear and abjed: thoughts) fo alfo isAtheifm : and that fowre and ghaftly apprehenfionof God, when it meets with more flout and furly Na-tures, is apt to enrage them, and cankering them withMalice againft the Deity they fo little brook, pro-vokes them to fight againft it and undermine the No-tion of it • as this Plaflkk Nature which intends toform Living creatures, when it meets with ftubbornand unruly Matter, is fain to yield to it, and to producethat which anfwers not her own Idea $ whence the Si-natures and impreifions of Nature fometimes vary fomuch from that Seal that Nature would haveftampd Upon them. O <Pei(Ti£eu[jyt)v ry poa,ipr\V, a-eb-eve&zps %}xv % t§ S^o^ct^v is%/ $rec*>v 0 /Zihelcn. Ifthe
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