The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part, Wherein, All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated (Classic Reprint)

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Of Religion, are lntimated by the Authour to the Hebrews, 172 the/e Wards; He that Cometh to God, mull: Believe that He Is, and That He isa Rewarder ofthofe who leek him out. For to Seek out God here, is nothing elfe, but to Seek a Participation ofhis lmage, or the Recovery of that Nature and Life of his, which we have been Alienated from. And thefe Three Things, namely, That all things do not Float without a Head and Governour; but there is an Omnipotent Llnderfianding Being Preliding over all That this God, hath an Effentiall Goodnefs and Juftice, and That the difierences of Good and Evil Morall, Honell: and ulllloflclt, are not by meer Will and Law onely, but by Nature; and confi'quently, That the Deity cannot A8, Influence, and Necellitate men, to juch things as are in their Own Nature, Evil and Lafily, That Necelhty isnot lntrinfecall to the Nature of every thing But that men have [uch a Liberty, or Power over their own Adions, as may render them Accountable for the fame, and Blame-worthy when they doe Ami/3; and confequently, That thereis a Jultice Dil'tributive of Rewards and Punilhments, running through the World I fay, The/i: Three, (which are the mofi Important Things, that the Mind of man can employ it felf.

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