Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

He speaks of the Atheist in the singular, the fool; of the corruption issuing in the life in the plural; Intimating that though some few may choke in their hearts the sentiments of God and his Providence, and positively deny them, yet there is something of a secret Atheism in all which is the fountain of the evil practices in their lives, not an utter disowning of the Being of a God, but a denial or doubting of some of the rights of his nature:^* When men deny the God of purity they must needs be polluted in Soul and Body and grow brutish in their actions: When the sense of Religion is shaken off, all kind of wickedness is eagerly rushed, into, whereby they become as loathsome to God as putrefied carcasses are to men:^* Not one or two evil actions is the product of such a principle, but the whole scene of a mans life is corrupted and becomes execrable.

He speaks of the Atheist in the singular, the fool; of the corruption issuing in the life in the plural; Intimating that though some few may choak in their hearts the sentiments of God and his Providence, and positively deny them, yet there is something of a secret Atheism in all which is the fountain of the evil practices in their lives, not an utter disowning of the Being of a God, but a denyal or doubting of some of the rights of his nature:^* When men deny the God of purity they must needs be polluted in Soul and Body and grow brutish in their actions: When the sense of Religion is shaken off, all kind of wickedness is eagerly rusht, into, whereby they become as loathsome to God as putrified carcases are to men:^* Not one or two evil actions is the product of such a principle, but the whole scene of a mans life is corrupted and becomes execrable.

1. *Atheism absolute is not in all mens judgements, but practical is in all mens actions. The Apostle in the Romans applying the later part of it to all mankind, but not the former. As the word translated corrupt signifies.
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