Excerpt from A Demonstration of the Divine Authority of the Law of Nature, and of the Christian Religion: In Two Parts Corruptions zof prodigious m, the'ir1n1piet1cs[as debaucheries, yet'the Reverence of Religion (fuch as it was in' appearance preferved with fome thew of facrednefs among the rankell Arbe ifis-andthe worf't of Men, this-was thought intolerable when all otherflwiekednefles were Openly allowed and praetifed. But how it comes topafs among us (unlefs it hethat the erifie of one Age makes Way/for the of another) -i know nor, the Plebeans and Mechanicks have philofophi-i fed themfelves into Principles of Impiety, and read their Leetures of Atheifm in the Streets'and the High-ways. And they [are able to demonltrate out of the Leviathan, that there is no God nor Providence, but that all'things come to pafs by an eternal Chain of natu'ral'caufes: That there are no of Good and Evil but. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.