Excerpt from Select Discourses: Treating 1. Of the True Way or Method of Attaining to Divine Knowledge; 2. Of Superstition; 3. Of Atheism; 4. Of the Immortality of the Soul; 5. Of the Existence and Nature of God; 6. Of Prophecy And nowi found that I flood in need of more Hands and Eyes then mine own for the fair tranfcribing of the Papers (otherwife impofiible to be printed) -as alfo for the examining of the material (eotations in this Vo lume and/in this Labour I had the alfifiance of fome Friends to whom the memory of the Author was very pretious. As for fome ibort Allufions and Exprefli ons borrow'd out of ancient Authors, ferving rather for Ornament then Snpport of the Matter in hand, there feem'd to belefs need of being follicitous about all of them: But for the Other Tefiimonies, which are many and weighty, xthere were but Few (fome poliibly among fiich a number of Quotations might efcape) that were nor examin'd; andi am fure that this labour was nor unneceffary and in vain, how wearifome foever it was, efpecially where the Authors, or the places in the Au thors, were'not mention'd. 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.