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wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

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Chap. III. Plajiick Life <strong>of</strong> Nature, 147confident rejcfting <strong>of</strong> <strong>all</strong> final <strong>and</strong> intending caufality in nature, <strong>and</strong> admitting<strong>of</strong> no o<strong>the</strong>r caufes <strong>of</strong> things, as phiiolbphical, fave <strong>the</strong> material<strong>and</strong> mechanical only ; th<strong>is</strong> being re<strong>all</strong>y to banifh <strong>all</strong> mental, <strong>and</strong> confequentlydivine caufality, quite out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world ; <strong>and</strong> to make <strong>the</strong> wholeworld to be nothing elfe, but a mere heap <strong>of</strong> duft, fortuitoufly agitated, ora dead cadaverous thing, that hath no fignatures <strong>of</strong> mind <strong>and</strong> underft<strong>and</strong>ing,counfel <strong>and</strong> wifdom at <strong>all</strong> upon it nor indeed any o<strong>the</strong>r vitality actingin it, than only <strong>the</strong> produftion <strong>of</strong> a certain quantity <strong>of</strong> local motion,•,<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> confervation <strong>of</strong> it according to fome general laws ; which things<strong>the</strong> Democritick A<strong>the</strong>ifts take for granted, would <strong>all</strong> be as <strong>the</strong>y are,though <strong>the</strong>re were no God. And thus Ariftotle dcfcribes th<strong>is</strong> kind oi'DeCio'vou, xj^ 'zfjt.ov(x.SuiVrdj^iv ij-rj i)(yvluv, c- vJ/tp(^a'V

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