id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt loc.ark:-13960-t4gm8fb48 Atkinson, John. [from old catalog] Hermit, 1811.0 .txt text/plain 12778 484 70 — And let the de« ist stop short in the midst of his ca- reer, and remember with all his boasted powers of reason, that as great men as any his whole tribe can produce, were Christians. Courteous Reader. — — Did you ever *^ see a man who had the assurance to t Watts.- 106 '^ tell you, that our belief in the divine origin of the scriptures is wholly to '* be ascribed to the force of educa- *^ tion, and the early infusions of the '* nurse and the priest ; but that all *' men of unfettered, uninfluenced * • sentiments, all philosophers and rea- *' soners, have ever esteemed revela- ** tion as imposture ; and this man at the same time confessing that Sir *' Isaac Newton, and Mr. Locke, *' and lord Bacon, and Sir, Robert Boyle, and Grotius, and Boerhave, ** and Littleton, and West, and Pas- *' cal, and Penn, and Barcla-% and Phipps, were all Christians, after the most impartial scrutiny and the ^* most assiduous investigation of the evidences by which revelation is *' supported. cache/loc.ark:-13960-t4gm8fb48.txt txt/loc.ark:-13960-t4gm8fb48.txt