Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

What a doleful meeting will there be between the God who is denied, and the Atheist that denies him, who shall meet with reproaches on Gods part, and terrors on his own? All that he gains is a liberty to defile himself here, and a certainty to be despised hereafter, if he be in an error, as undoubtedly he is.

What a doleful meeting will there be between the God who is denyed, and the Atheist that denyes him, who shall meet with reproaches on Gods part, and terrors on his own? All that he gains is a liberty to defile himself here, and a certainty to be despised hereafter, if he be in an errour, as undoubtedly he is.

6. Can any such person say he hath done all that he can to inform himself of the being of God, or of other things which he denies? Or rather they would fain imagine there is none, that they may sleep securely in their lusts and be free (if they could) from the thunder-claps of Conscience? Can such say they have used their utmost endeavours to instruct themselves in this, and can meet with no satisfaction? Were it an abstruse Truth it might not be wondered at: but not to meet with satisfaction in this which every thing minds us of, and helpeth, is the fruit of an extreme negligence, stupidity, and a willingness to be unsatisfied, and a judicial process of God against them. 'Tis strange any man should be so dark in that upon which depends the conduct of his life, and the expectation of happiness hereafter.

6. Can any such person say he hath done all that he can to inform himself of the being of God, or of other things which he denyes? Or rather they would fain imagine there is none, that they may sleep securely in their lusts and be free (if they could) from the thunder-claps of Conscience? Can such say they have used their utmost indeavours to instruct themselves in this, and can meet with no satisfaction? Were it an abstruse Truth it might not be wondred at: but not to meet with satisfaction in this which every thing minds us of, and helpeth, is the fruit of an extream negligence, stupidity, and a willingness to be unsatisfied, and a judicial process of God against them. 'Tis strange any man should be so dark in that upon which depends the conduct of his life, and the expectation of happiness hereafter.