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The theory of vision vindicated and explained
The theory of vision vindicated and explained Author:George Berkeley 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: ciples, down from the writer in Defenfe of the Rights of the Chriftian Church, to this plain dealer, the admirable author upon " Death." During which period of t... more »ime, I think one may obferve a laid defign, gradually to undermine the belief of the Divine Attributes and Natural Religion; which fcheme runs parallel with their gradual, covert, infincere proceedings, in refpect of the Gospel. THAT Atheiftical principles have taken deeper root, and are farther fpread, than moft people are apt to imagine, will be plain to whoever confiders, that Pantheifm, Materialifm, Fatalifm, are nothing but Atheifm a little difguifed; that the notions of Hobbes, Spinosa, Leibnitz, and Bayle are relifhed and applauded; that as they who deny the Freedom and Immortality of the foul in effect deny its being, even fo they do, as to all moral effects and naturalreligion, deny the being of God, who deny Him to be an obferver, judge, and re- warder of human actions; that the courfe of arguing purfued by infidels leads to Atheifm as well as infidelity. [An inftance of this may be feen in the proceeding of the Author of a book, intituled, A Difcourfe of Free-thinking occa- fioned by the Rife and Growth of a Seff called Free-thinkers, who, having infinuated his Infidelity from men's various pretences and opinions concerning revealed religion, in like manner appears to infinuate his Atheifm from the differing notions of men concerning the nature and attributes of God, particularly from the opinion of our knowing God by analogy, as it hath been mif- underftood and mi (interpreted by fome of late years. Such is the ill effect of untoward defences and explanations of our Faith; and fuch advantage do incautious friends give its enemies. If there be any modern well meaning writer, who (perhaps from not having co...« less