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PREPARATORY

CONSIDERATIONS.

I DEEM it unnecessary to prove that man kind stood in need of a revelation, because I have met with no serious person who thinks that, even under the Christian revelation, we have too much light, or any degree of assurance which is superfluous. I desire moreover, that, in judging of Christianity, it may be remembered, that the question lies between this religion and none: for, if the Christian religion be not credible, no one, with whom we have to do, will support the pretensions of any

other.

Suppose, then, the world we live in to have had a Creator; suppose it to appear, from the predominant aim and tendency

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