“prideofphilosophers” andthe “despairofatheists”?
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[1] , ’smercythatHehasgivenindicationsofboth.
[2] Andyettheytakeoccasiontoconcludethatoneofthesepointsdoesnotexist, fromthatwhichshouldhavecausedthemtoinfertheother.Thesages4whohavesaidthereisonlyoneGodhavebeenpersecuted, theJewswerehated, andstillmoretheChristians.Theyhaveseenbythelightofnature5thatiftherebeatruereligiononearth, thecourseofallthingsmusttendtoitastoacentre.
[3] , finally, religionmustsobetheobjectandcentretowhichallthingstend, thatwhoeverknowstheprinciplesofreligioncangiveanexplanationbothofthewholenatureofmaninparticular, andofthewholecourseoftheworldingeneral.
[4] Andonthisgroundtheytakeoccasiontorevile6theChristianreligion, , powerful, andeternal; whichisstrictlydeism7, almostasfarremovedfromtheChristianreligionasatheism8, , becausetheydonotseethatallthingsconcurtotheestablishmentofthispoint, thatGoddoesnotmanifestHimselftomenwithalltheevidencewhichHecouldshow.
[5] Butletthemconcludewhattheywillagainstdeism, theywillconcludenothingagainsttheChristianreligion, whichproperlyconsistsinthemysteryoftheRedeemer9, who, unitinginHimselfthetwonatures, humananddivine, hasredeemedmenfromthecorruptionofsininordertoreconciletheminHisdivinepersontoGod.
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