A Sketch of the Philosophical Character of the Late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke
A Sketch of the Philosophical Character of the Late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke
Thomas Hunter
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Forged miracles, and pret^ided • revelations, may be, as forgeries gene- rally are, imitations founded in fome-^ tiling iimilar and real: but all revela- tions, and all miracles, the belief of ■which has fo univerfally prevailed, are in dire£k contradidtion to your lordfliip's natural Theifm. He allows natural rdigioti to be corrupt and loft. He fays, that though God was known and wor- ihipped, it will not follow, that this knowledge and worfhip were preferved, or even eftabliflied any where in... all the purity of Theifm; — and yet this cor- ruption of Chriftianity is fuppofed to detrad from its authority. — What is probable, what is plaufible, what is pof- fible, and what is adhially impoffible, — yet are in their feveral turns admitted to fupport his own hypothefis ; — while nothing fhort of demonftration, is al- lowed, in fupport of thofe of his adver- faries. As to his objeSion to divine revelation not anfwering, in its efFeGs ; we have as L a good 1^ stction V. good arrigbt «> efejcft; tkit trutk ind real^ ard not the gift of God) becaufe they jtnfwer xsm iu tke daSeO: ; and hbr lo^^'ipy iapttticdiar^ has falle^i ihdrtv o^ been wide o£ them ia a tkofo^nd 10- ttaacsss^ Hrt n^igfht a» well rcproacfc 'Ms&vea tdtb its bleflingjsr that are abtifed: to answer fodt d>jedioQ9, as to make dtetn, is^ aia iniuk npon comfflcm fenfe ;: and they only become refpeQable by iha hobte hand^, into whicli tiiey are feHen.
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