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Now if he be not fure there is no Deity, he 

 cannot be without fon^e Sufpicion and Fear that 

 there may be one. 



Secondly, If tloere Jkoidd be a Deity ^ fo holy^ and 

 juji^ and powerful, as is Jupposdy what Vengeance 

 and Indigfiation may fuch vile Mifcreants and Re^ 

 bels expeB, who have made it their Bujinefs to banijh 

 him out of the World, who is the great Creator and 

 Governor of it \ to undermine his Being, and eradi- 

 cate all Notions of him out of their own and other 

 Mens Minds ; to provoke his Creatures and Vaffals 

 to a Contempt of him, a flighting of his Fear and 

 Worfoip, as being fuch imaginary Chimaera's as are 

 fit only to keep Fools in awe ? Certainly as this is the 

 higheji Provocation that any Man can be guilty of 

 fojhatl it be punifod with theforefi Vengeance. 



Now a flender Sufpicion of the Exiftence 

 of a Being , the Denial whereof is of fo fad 

 Confequence, muft needs difturb the Atheift's 

 Thoughts, and fill him with Fears, and qualify 

 and allay all his Pleafures and Enjoyments, and 

 render him miferable even in this Life. 



But on the other fide, he that believes and owns a 

 God, if there fdoiild be none, is in no danger of any 

 bad Confequent 5 for all the Inconvenience of this 

 Belief 'will be, that he may be hereby occafion'd to 

 tye himfelf up tofome needlefs Refiraints during this 

 Jkort T^ime of his hife^ wherein notwithfianding 

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