British Journal (Newspaper) - May 29, 1725, London, Middlesex t The May 29 I Have been lately looking over the Neta of the Art of by Pro of and at I find him an able and perfectly Mafter of his He well the Power and Operations 4 of the Human and how far her Faculties will go He is a without being and diy His every where with fine and agreeable Images and his which is and comes in 4 and entertains the It altogether a great and a giear Part of it very de By this of that I at only to recommend to the by the Means of your the Tenth Chapter of his Third It Defence of the and Obloquy of can at noTime fail of being to Mankind At this Juncture it happens to fall in properly a now on ft is that be frightful to fuch as Would at eternal Odds with com mon and and the more and they think them the more holy For the lefs maintains the higher will their Empire I am one who that where there is no no certain and clear there can be no and ought to be no Faith And is a or and ex hibits ft deformed and impious Idea of the God of and Author of But let us hear j c are and of this Age X may be reckoned among who that is nor Method of informing but that the Way to of Truth is not to at to forbear to dived of to give cur Minds to a Duine which alone is capable of us in a folid When we demand a Foundation of them for thu iur they feem to be in a that the 4 which reigns in all the and the extreme of 4 the who are divided Co ib contrary to one do not oblige all who love the to own the Inefficiency of that by which they have hitherto pretended to arrive at But this Objection only hews that the we have traced the Rules thereof have nor been exactly enough followed and it if you that it h not fo to follow it as it is from The Difficulty in it docs not jufti fy the ram that therefore we muft to give up to another But if it be hard to then we mould begin early the Practice of without continue it with the Application and 4 Learned Men have offen without finding by the Truths they enquired All that can be inferred from that we ought to with more 4 We are fond of and it flatters our SelfLove to think that if we have hitherto been if we have but and find doubtful and lefs oar Fault chan our Ve have been ill taught born in we have met with blind who us in Method and when we think have done we find we have done all prc have been and have en to a Truth that flics the but in all its who wait for it in a peaceful in is very and would be as commodious but the Bun nafs is to prove it Hoc hie labor 4 But when they invite us at to make an Attempt in this War when they conjure us fo tenderly to open our Eyes to CPrice it is being this methinks we without fame For they tell if we do not find upon Tryal the Excel lency of may give it and return again co that of 4 I would readily agree to make this if J was not it is too a Hazard and if this grounded upon good was not alib by When a Mui has once beea to not to attend fo the of his he thinks no more of his ex Faculties he docs not medicare be not rouie to the of any or the drawing of any Confer quences and notwithstanding his Ideas within he endeavours Fertility tt and he ever turns hL Eyes from aU Thus renouncing and the Commerce of other always driving to IH and ever ir is at In it give him any Trouble He falls into and then into Deliriums and Opi the foreign to are the that ceale to be The of giving up o being no longer in Pain or Labour to of that a few gloomy Imaginations the of a GoJ concealed within him iu the and Error into which he is once fallen And by what 1 Reflexions can you cure a u thus 4 It we the between Ideas and and i the Ufe to which Men apply two Ways we that commonly are bred by deciding in Mat 4 of which we have not been enough ro form clear 4 and by judging of them from TaU is the Source v of a Prejudices for it is by this 4 are induced to believe the Body more real than the and to 4 prefer the Glare of Fortune to the Beauty of Virtue Therefore a his from forming of 1 and having a of forgets to be 4 by Means the Sport of whatever you 4 he admits or rejects a he it conformable or op to the Humour with which he is Who would 4 not be afraid to fix by Degrees in a of Mind fo 4 and to which the Way ib naturally leads US 4 Hail we never or we mould not have been 4 capable tn know any but have nearly equalled the 4 of It is by we have learnd to 4 o to to ana what is proper to pre ferve our Health from thac which injures it to make a 4 between Good and Virtue and Truth and Rea 4 ion then has been our Guide and we owe our chief 4 lions to it Shall we quit ir all a once to rake another 4 by all it we view ib much Danger 4 I we ought to our Thoughts This is a Pre 4 caution full ef good It wouldbe wrong to match a 4 with a But when that which we fee 4 agrees with that which tells we remain ia and Uncertainty Lee a Mtn open his Eyes to what daily and he will be whether the Fear of be coming a by leaving to take up with the be only a Had God an and in Light to fuch as apply to and renounce their it would be and Want of to it But ther nor Revelation let this Secret the Texts al for it by Pretenders to do not admit Sente and we muft take them for illuminated upon their before we can believe their Interpretations of reign which eafon gives to We muft fq is in but if we are mifled by a ram and to the Dreams of a tion for divine we not be cornier of God and for running into U
