A Short and Easy Method With the Deists Author:Charles Leslie 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: true, the doctrine mujl be fo likewife. For, argues the apojile, if the doctrine be not true, the faft mujl be falfc ; if the dead rife not, then is not Chrift r... more »aifed. The truth of a matter of fact may be certainly known, if it be attended with certain marks, fuch as nofalfefact can pojfibly have. Thefe marks are four. It is required, jit ft , that thefaflbe afenjible fact, fuch as men's outward fenfes can judge of; fccondly, that it be notorious, performed publickly in the prefence of witneffes ; thirdly, that there be memorials of it, or monuments and actions kept up in memory of it; fourthly, that fuch monuments and actions begin with the fact. It is the dejigfi of Mr. Lejlies book to ficiv, how thefe four marks do all meet in the facts of Chriftianity. And to the four marks, which any true fact may have, he has added four more, in his fecond tract, which are .peculiar to the facts of Chrijlianity. A 3 Eiwy chapter{Section 4 Every Reader, to whom the Short Method is new, ivill be induced to think more highly of it, if I tell him its hijlory ; as I received it from Doctor Delany, Dean of Down in Ireland; wbo told me he had it from Captain Lejlie a fan of the Author. It was the fortune of Mr. Le/lie to be acquainted with the Duke of Leeds of that time ; who obfcrved to him, that although he was a believer of the . Chriftian Religion, he was not fatisjied with the common methods of proving it: that the argument was long and complicated; Jo that fome had neither leifure nor patience to follow it, and others were not able to comprehend it: that as it was the nature of all truth to be plain and fimple-, if Chriftianity were a truth , there mujl be fame Jhort way of Jhewing it to befo; and he wijhed Mr. Lejlie would think of it. Such a hint to fuch a man, in the fpace of t...« less