Part II. in //5^ C R e a t i o n. 403 



from God and Men, but from himfelf tooj there 

 is no Peace to the Wicked ^ faith my Gody no inward 

 Peaces fuch a Man is at odds with himfelf ; for 

 the Commandments of God being agreeable to 

 the Nature of Man, and perfedly conformable 

 to the Didlates of right Reafon,* Man's Judgmenc 

 gives Sentence with the divine Law, and con- 

 demns him when he violates any of them -, and 

 fo the Sinner becomes an Heauto?2timoriimenos, a 

 Tormentor of himfelf Prima ejl hac ultio^ quod 

 Je Jiidice nemo nocem abfohitiir. No guilty Per- 

 fon is abfolv'd at his own Tribunal, himfelf be- 

 ing Judge. 



Neither let any profligate Perfon, who hath 

 bidden Defiance to his Confcience, and is at 

 War with himfelf, think to take Sanduary in 

 Atheifm, and becaufe it imports him highly there 

 fliould be no God, ftoutly deny that there is any. 

 For firft, fuppofing that the Exigence of a Deity 

 were not demonftrably or infallibly prov'd (as it 

 moft certainly is) yet he cannot be fure of the 

 contrary, that there is none. For 7io Man can he 

 fure df a pure Negative, namely^ that fuch a thing 

 is noty unlefs he iiuill either pretend to have a certain 

 Knowledge of all things that are or may be^ than 

 which nothing can be more monjlroufly and ridtcu^ 

 loujly arrcga7it ; or elj'e^ unlcfs he he fure that the 

 being of nsjhat he denies doth imply a ContradiBion^ 

 for which there is not the leaf. Colour in this 'Cafe % 

 the true Notion of God conffiing in this, that he is 

 a Being of all polTible Perfection, that I may bor- 

 row my Lord Biihop of Chefers Words, in his 

 Difcourfe of natural Religion, Page 94. 



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