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 against Atheism, shewn what admirable Use may be made of an accurate Search into Nature, thereby to lead us directly up to its Author, so as to leave the unbelieving World without Excuse.

But, after all that I have alledged for my self, I must acknowledge, that I soon found that I did not enough consider. The Subject was too vast for any one Man, much more for me, to think to do it Justice; and therefore, as soon as I had drawn up a rude Scheme of the Work, I intended to have given it over, if the importunate Sollicitations of my very ingenious Friend, Anthony Hammond, Esq had not at last prevailed upon me to try what might be said upon it: And it was so difficult a Thing to me to refuse what was so earnestly pressed by a Person who was so very dear to me, and which in the present Case was a