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 other things which they know I have well considered were) made by chance; and that the inimitable and unsearchable generation of them is also by chance.

Is it not necessary that I should believe the World was either made of nothing, or that it is eternal? Either of which Positions is unfathomable by reason, and onely comprehensible by Faith; Why then should I think, since some seeming Impossibilities must be taken upon Faith only: That the other less difficult points may not? And why should I not think, That much must rest upon Faith? who have for these many years (and more then most men) complained of the insufficiency of Reason, and of the uncertainty and treachery of the very Senses. Well, I have so much Religion and Faith, as to believe that Almighty God can and will clense, and draw forth this poyson of Asps which is under the lips and tongues of the malicious.

Moreover, whom have I seduced to my Errors? Whose Opinions do I prosecute? What Conscientious Superstitionary have I mocked? To whom do I not preach love to God, faith in Christ,