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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings
A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings Author:David Simpson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II.—Examples of Persons recovered from their Infidelity. " If, sick of folly, I relent, he writes My name in heaven." 13. Charles Gildon, author of a boo... more »k called the Oracles of Reason, was convinced of the fallacy of his own arguments against religion, and the danger of his situation by reading Leslie's Short Method with a Deist. He afterwards wrote a defence of Revealed Religion, entitled, The Deist's Manual, and died in the Christian faith- 14. The late Lord Littleton, author of the History of Henry the Second, and his friend Gilbert West, Esq. had both imbibed the principles of unbelief, and had agreed together to write something in favour of infidelity. To do this more effectually, they judged it necessary, first, to acquaint themselves pretty well with the contents of the Bible. By the perusal of that book, however, they were both convinced of their error: both became converts to the religion of Christ Jesus ; both took up their pens and wrote in favour of it ; the former, his Observations on Athenagoras, a famous Athenian philosopher in the second century, had entertained so unfavourable an opinion of the Christian religion, that he was determined to write against it; but upon an intimate inquiry into the facts on which it was supported, in the course of his collecting materials for his intended publication, he was convinced by the blaze of evidence in its favour, and turned his designed invective into an elaborate apology, which is still in being. The above Mr West, writing to Dr Dodflttdge on the publication of his Memoirs of Colonel Gardiner, fflwibes his own conversion from a state of infidelity, into which he had been seduced, to the care his mother had taken in his education. " I cannot help taking notice," says he, " of your remarks upon the advantag...« less