remote and particular and unlikely to come to pass, beyond the possibility of good Guessing or the mere Foresight of Humane Wisdom; if we find a most warrantable tradition, that at sundry times and in di∣vers manners God spake unto Mankind by his Prophets and by his Son and his Apostles, who have deliver'd to us in Sacred Writings a clearer Revelation of his Divine Nature and Will: if, I say, this Third Topick from Humane Testimony be found agreeable to the stand∣ing Vote and Attestation of Nature, What further proofs can be demanded or desired? what fuller e∣vidence can our Adversaries require, since all the Classes of known Beings are summoned to appear? Would they have us bring more Witnesses, than the All of the World? and will they not stand to the grand Verdict and Determination of the Uni∣verse? They are incurable Infidels, that persist to deny a Deity; when all Creatures in the World, as well spiritual as corporeal, all from Humane Race to the lowest of Insects, from the Cedar of Libanus to the Moss upon the Wall, from the vast Globes of the Sun and Planets, to the smallest Particles of Dust, do declare their absolute dependance upon the first Author and Fountain of all Being and Mo∣tion and Life, the only Eternal and Self-existent God; with whom inhabit all Majesty and Wisdom and Goodness for ever and ever.0
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