More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second…

Fifteenthly, But there is yet a fuller natural evidence of the truth of some reports; Even when besides the report, there remain some visible unimitable effects of the reported actions, which could be caused by nothing else. As if their Fathers told the Grand-Children of Noah of the deluge, they might see such effects of it as might assure them that it was true. If the Parents of the man born blind, Joh. 9. were told by him that his eyes were cured, when they saw it in the effects they must believe it: If uncontrolled History tell our Children that London was burnt and new built, that Pauls Church was burnt, &c. that multitudes died of the Plague the year before, &c. When they see the City, the Church, the Graves, the change of Inhabitants, the proved Testaments of the deceased, besides uncontradicted testimony here is a natural evidence to assure it.

Fifteenthly, But there is yet a fuller natural evidence of the truth of some reports; Even when besides the report, there remain some visible unimitable effects of the reported actions, which could be caused by nothing else. As if their Fathers told the Grand-Children of Noah of the deluge, they might see such effects of it as might assure them that it was true. If the Parents of the man born blind, Joh. 9. were told by him that his eyes were cured, when they saw it in the effects they must believe it: If uncontroulled History tell our Children that London was burnt and new built, that Pauls Church was burnt, &c. that multitudes died of the Plague the year before, &c. When they see the City, the Church, the Graves, the change of Inhabitants, the proved Testaments of the deceased, besides uncontradicted testimony here is a natural evidence to assure it.

Sixteenthly, Though some half witted Philosophers boast much of the certainty of their Physics in comparison of Morality, the truth is, the most of Physics are mere untainties, and the wisest see it, and busily pull down others doctrines, but confess they are yet but searching and groping by extrinsic effects and experiments to know what to set up in the stead: And so did others before them: And long may they so search before they find. Whereas there is a more satisfying Evidence in much of Morality, as being Natural to Mankind, and such as will no sooner cease to be believed than man will cease to be man: whereon all the affairs of the world are turned, and converse, Societies, and all the private Comforts of Nature are maintained: God hath made known to us what pleased him, according to his own wisdom and not at our direction or choice. And he hath chosen that for us which is most useful: It is more useful to us to know how to live well, and how