A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

Qu. 17. If it be not the very Light and Law of Nature that teacheth and obligeth a man to believe a life to come, how comes it to pass, that all the world, except a few Savages and Cannibals, and here and there an Apostate among us, do universally profess to believe it? The Jews, the Turks, the Heathens of most Nations, besides the Christians, do all make it an Article of their Belief. We differ indeed about the way (and yet are all agreed that Godliness and Honesty; fearing God, and doing Righteousness, are necessary); but that there is another life, we are in almost all the world agreed. And will you go against the light of humane Nature it self? Or with what face can you expect that here and there such a wretch as you, should be though wiser then all the world, till you give us better evidence of your wisdom? And how justly do they perish that will follow you?

Quer. 18. Are not those that Believe the Life to come of Holier lives (for the generality) then those that do not? And whether is it like that God should reveal his mind to them, or unto wicked wretches? and is it liker that he should forsake all the holy persons of all ages, and give them up to deceit in the greatest matters, who most diligently study and pray for Knowledge, rather then forsake those sensual wretches that wilfully forsake him?

Quer. 18. Are not those that Believe the Life to come of Holyer lives (for the generality) then those that do not? And whether is it like that God should reveal his mind to them, or unto wicked wretches? and is it liker that he should forsake all the holy persons of all ages, and give them up to deceit in the greatest matters, who most diligently study and pray for Knowledge, rather then forsake those sensual wretches that wilfully forsake him?

Quer. 19. Is there not in thy own Conscience, at least sometimes, ⟨p. 150⟩