The Fountain of Life Opened

¹Reader, bethink thy self a little; if thou hadst a mind (as one saith) to impose a lie upon all the world, what course wouldst thou take? How wouldst thou lay the design? or why dost thou in this case imagine, what thou knowest not how to imagine? 'Tis evident that the very consciences of the Heathens, have these offices of accusing and excusing, Rom. 2.15. And it's hard to imagine (as an ingenious Author speaks) that a general Cheat should bow down the backs of all mankind,² and induce so many doubts and fears, and troubles amongst them; and give an interruption to the whole course of their corrupt living, and that there should be no account of it? And therefore it's undoubted that such a day will come. But I shall rather choose in the

¹Reader, bethink thy self a little; if thou hadst a mind (as one saith) to impose a lie upon all the world, what course wouldst thou take? How wouldst thou lay the design? or why dost thou in this case imagine, what thou knowest not how to imagine? 'Tis evident that the very consciences of the Heathens, have these offices of accusing and excusing, Rom. 2.15. And it's hard to imagine (as an ingenious Author speaks) that a general Cheat should bow down the backs of all mankind,² and induce so many doubts and fears, and troubles amongst them; and give an interruption to the whole course of their corrupt living, and that there should be no account of it? And therefore it's undoubted that such a day will come. But I shall rather chuse in the

1. 1Mr. Hows blessedness of the right. p. 343.Mr. Howes blessedness of the right. p. 343.
2. 2Sr. Charles Wo•sely Unreasonableness of Atheism p. 76.