Natural Religion Insufficient And Revealed Necessary To Man S Happiness In His Present State Or A Rational Enquiry Into The Principles Of The Modern Deists

Excerpt from Natural Religion Insufficient, and Revealed Necessary, to Man's Happiness in His Present State: Or, a Rational Inquiry Into the Principles of the Modern Deists; Wherein Is Largely Discovered Their Utter Insufficiency to Answer the Great Ends of Religion, and the Weakness of Their Pleadings for the Sufficiency of Nature's Light to Eternal Happiness The God of glory hath not left himself without a witness; all his works do, after their manner declare his glory. Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these, that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? Job xii. 7, 8, 9. Moreover it hath pleased him to instamp upon the consciences of men, such deep impressions of his being and glory, that all the powers and subtilty of hell, shall never be able to eradicate them: Though, alas! through a custom of sin, and especially against much light and conviction, the consciences of many are debauched in these dregs of time, to an obliterating of these impressions, which otherwise would have been strong and vivid. The principles of moral equity carry such an evidence in their nature, and are also accompanied with so much of binding force upon the conscience, that their obligation on rational creatures hath a most resplendent clearness, and fills the little world with such a strength, and efficacy of truth, as far surpasseth the plainest theoretical principles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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