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On a Neglected Argument for the Reality of GOD.

The first proposition of natural theology: what single other subject has been worn so threadbare!

Moreover, whoever from prelate down to plough-boy has deeply thought over this subject, is, I believe, familiar with the line of thought to which this paper relates, though it will be convenient to designate it a[s] "the neglected argument." Indeed, meaning by "God," throughout this paper will be meant, the Being whose attributes are, in the main, those usually ascribed to Him, omniscience, omnipotence, infinite benignity, and a Being not immanent in the Universes of Matter, Mind, and Ideas, but the Sole Creator of every content of them without exception, when we consider how much an assurance of His Being would help men to govern their conduct by the best attainable lights, how can we refrain from expecting of his Benignity, to find that there is some reason

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