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Rh Holding also good Correspondence with the other Great Men in the State, Or else the Remedie is worse then the Disease.  

had rather beleeve all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universall Frame is without a Minde; and, therefore, God never wrought Miracle to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth man's mind to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy bringeth Men's mindes about to Religion: For while the Minde of Man looketh upon Second Causes Scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and goe no further: But when it beholdeth the Chaine of them Confederate, and linked together, it must needs flie to Providence and Deitie. Nay, even that Schoole, which is most accused of Atheisme doth most demonstrate Religion; That is, the Schoole of Leucippus, and Democritus, and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more Credible that foure Mutable Elements, and one Immutable Fift Essence, duly and Eternally placed, need no God, then that an Army of Infinite small Portions or Seedes unplaced should have produced this Order and Beauty without a Divine Marshall. The Scripture saith, The Foole hath thought in his Heart, there is no God: it is not said, The Foole hath thought in his Heart: So as he rather saith it by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly beleeve it, or be persuaded of it. For none deny there is a God, but those for whom it maketh that there were 