Eight Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford in the Year 1799
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It has been maintained, with every appearance of truth, that no man of refleftion can wholly diveft himfelf of the belief of the exiftence and providence of God; and confequently that they, who make profeffion of infidelity, own a convidion which they do not feel; and while they deny with their lips a future ftate of relponfibility, they not feldom con- fefs it by their fears. Unbelievers, indeed, as is univerfally known, have often acknow- ledged that their guilty pleafures were alloyed ♦ Lucr...et. Lib. 6. P bj 2 1 o Chrijiiamty favourable to by involuntary apprehcnfions of a judgment to come. In the hour of ficknefs or foli- tude, in moments of refleftion, or on the ap- proach of death, they have doubted the truth of their former principles, or wholly retraced their infidelity. And it has from hence been concluded, that the boafted fervice of Epi- curus never was performed*^ The fincerity of the profeflions of the in- fidel, however^ cannot in every inftance be difproved. Allowing him therefore the fulleft conviction of the truth of his own tenets; let us enquire whether he can rationally claim thofe advantages of fuperior peace of mind^, w^hifti the poet of atheifm has fo eloquently difplayed.
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