THE BEING OP GOD DEMONSTRATED. 383 



que d'etre vrais ; avec lefquels on demontre tout, mais 

 qu'on ne prouve point ; qu'on n'ofe nier fans etre impie, 

 et qu'on ne peut croire, fans etre imbecille. 



AN ATTEMPT TO DEMONSTRATE THE EXISTENCE 

 OF GOD, FROM THE FORMATION OF MAN. 



Metaphysics, according to twtmfemm 



of the greateft philofophers, are unable to give us com- 

 plete conviction of the being of God. The following 

 popular proof, which is almoft totally independent on 

 metaphylics, has always feemed to me the moft con- 

 vincing. 



The point from whence I fet out is this : Our earth 

 has been for feveral thoufand years alternately the fport 

 of fire and water. The proofs of this affertion are in- 

 numerable. We need only to confult the writings of 

 thofe who have made it their bulinefs to pry into 

 nature. 



Had the globe been, as Leibnitz and Buffon affert, 

 at any time a glowing mafs, then it is clear, that at 

 that time no men nor animals were upon the earth. 



The eternal feminal eggs, which fome atheifb have 

 had recourfe to as their laft refort, could never have 

 witkftood the continued glow, but muft have been 

 utterly deftroyed. 



How is it poffible, that, from this mafs of drofs, of 

 afhes, of molten and then indurated metallic fub^ 

 fiances, of calcined ftones, &c. that from this enor- 

 mous 



