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The History of Religion, Ed. With Notes by R.m. Evanson
The History of Religion Ed With Notes by Rm Evanson Author:John Evelyn General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1850 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: THE TRUE RELIGION. CHAPTER I.' WHETHER THERE BE A DEITY AND SUPREME BEING ? THAT THERE IS, PROVED SECTION I. BY UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGES. SECTION H. BT THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. rPART I. BY THE SOUL OP MAN. SECTION III. (. PART II. BY THE NOVITY OF THE WORLD. SECTION IV. BY PROVIDENCE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD. SECTION I. BY UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGES. SiV dew. Although, amongst all the disquisitions and controversies about Religion, this most certainly needs least dispute and probation; everything we see, and everything that moves evincing it,3 so as to deny, or indeedso much as to question it, reproaches as well our common sense as our reason; yet, forasmuch as some such monsters there have been and yet are (at least, if one may estimate by their lives and morals), in these last and dregs of times, I conceive it not amiss for me to remove that rubbish, and at once to clear my way, by calling to mind, and putting into method, some of those irrefragable, though common arguments, produced for proof. 1 Consult Dr. Tillotson, two first Sermons in his first part, for this Chapter, and the first concerning Atheists. 2 See a Discourse of Natural and Revealed Religion in my brother's library at Wotton, sold at the 3 Pigeons, Inner Temple Gate. VOL. I. B Of the contents of this chapter, upon'which the subsequent Discourse is to be established -- The existence of a Deity is so much an innate and fundamental principle, that not only Holy Scripture makes it out, but all the wise and sober men in the world, Heathens and others, at all times and in all places, have taken it for granted. And therefore M...« less