IT must be confessed, that the credit of Religion hath much suffered, in the age we live in, through the vain pretences of many to it, who have only acted a part in it for the sake of some private interests of their own. And it is the usual logic of Atheists, Crimine ab uno, Disce omnes, if there be any hypocrites, all who make shew of religion are such; on which account, the Hypocrisy of one age makes way for the Atheism of the next. BISHOP STILLINGFLEET. ADVERTISEMENT. following Narrative is reprinted intire from ssages of the Life and Death of the Right 'n Earl of Rochester, who died the 26th 680 written by his own direction on his by Gilbert Burnet, D. D. London, 1680; which, Doctor Johnson has declared in of the Poets, that the Critic ought to read egance, the Philosopher for its arguments, aint for its piety. IT must be confessed, that the credit of Religion hath much suffered, in the age we live in, through the vain pretences of many to it, who have only acted a part in it for the sake of some private interests of their own. And it is the usual logic of Atheists, Crimine ab uno, Disce omnes, if there be any hypocrites, all who make shew of religion are such; on which account, the Hypocrisy of one age makes way for the Atheism of the next. BISHOP STILLINGFLEET. |
