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

•andand%\'[nA?J Account of the Life and WritingsHe was a Man of very cxtenfive Learning, cxccilently flcill'd in the learnedLanguages and Antiquity, a good Mathematician, a fubtile Philofopher,and a profound Mctaphylician. I Ic embraced the Mechanical or CorpufciilarPhilofophy ; but with regard to the Deity, Intelligences, Genii, Ideas,in fliort the Principles of human Knowledge, he followed Plato, andeven the latter Platonifts *. A great number of Writers commend his Pietyand Modefty •,+ Bifhop Bnrnet having obferv'd, that Dr. Henry MoreJlttdied to confider Religion as a Seed cf a De'iform Nature, and in order tothis, fet young Students much on reading the antient Philofopbers, chiefly Plato,Tully, and Plotin, a;;^ on confidering the Chriflian Religion as a DoSlrine fent fromCod both to derate ani fweeten human Nature, tells us, that "Dr. Cudworth-"carried this on with a great Strength of Genius, and a vaft Compafs of" Learning j" and tnat " he was a Man of great Conduft and Prudence j" upon which his Enemies did very falfely accufe him of Craft and Diffimu-" lation." The late Earl of Shafteflyury ||ftyles him an excellent and learned'Divine, of higheji Authority at home, and Fame abroad.Befides his Sermon on i John ii. 3, 4. above-mentioned, he publifli'dlikewife another on i Cor. xv. 57. the third Edition of both which wasprinted at London 1676, in folio.He left feveral polthumous Works, moft of whichfeem to be a Continuationof his Intellectual Syflem, of which he had given the world onlythe firft Part. One of thefe was publifh'd by Dr. Edxvard Chandler, Bifhopoi Durham, at London, in 1731, under this Title; A 'Treatife concerningeternal and immutable Morality. In the Preface % to which the Bilhop obferves,that in this Book our Author " proves the falfenefs of the Confe-" quences with refpeft to tiatural Juflice and Morality in God, which are de-" ducible from the Principles of thofe, that maintain the fecond fort of*' Fate, denominated by him Theobgic. And thus it may be reckoned to be" a fequel in part of his firil Book againft Material Fate. Had it come*' abroad as early as it was written, it had ferved for a proper Antidote to the" Poifon in fomeofMr. Hobbes^s and others Writings, who reviv'd in that" Age the exploded Opinions of Protagoras and other antient Greeks, and" took away the ejfential and eternal Difcriniinations of moral Good and Evil," '^fj^'ft andunjufl, and made them all arbitrary Produhions of divine or human" Will. Againft the antient and modern Patrons of this Doftrine, no one*' hath v.-rit better than Dr. Cud'u:orth. His Book is indeed a Demonftration" of the truth of the contrary Opinion, and is drawn up with that Beauty," Clearnefs, and Strength, as muft delight as well as convince the Reader, if I" may judge of the affedion of others from the effect it had on me. It will" certainly give a juft Idea of the Writer's good Senfe, as well as vaft Learning,*' We are not certain, that this Treatife is quoted fo perfeft as the Author" defign'd it ; but ic appears from the Manufcript, that he tranfcribcd the•* beft part of it with his own hand, as if it was fpeedily to have been fent" to the Prcfs."The* Mofheim, aW j'v^r/r.tlCbaraaeiifticks. Vol III Clip. i. p. 6:^.\ hiftory of hii own Tine, I'ol.J.u. iS;. i P. y, ic, Ji.